Originally posted by: Crazyfool
Saddam supported terrorist suicide bombers in Israel. Paid millions to their families. This is not even a contested issue. I don't care what reason they used to sell you on taking that guy out.
Lets say Saddam did fund these terrorists, but we didn't take Saddam out. instead we killed thousands upon thousands of civilians, looted the oldest artifacts of our civilization, put the entire area on fire, and so fourth. Also, Arial Sharon PERSONALLY funded HAMAS in the 1980s when he was finance minister of Israel. The USA personally sold Saddam the WMDs which were illegal to kill Iranians, and Bin Ladin has always been a CIA assett to fund the Mujahadeen 'Afghansi' 'freedom fighters' against the soviets. When did Bin Ladin stop working for us?
Besides, when they do find these "WMD", all you Saddam lovers/Bush haters will say it was planted so there can be no real answer to satisfy you people anyway. Tell me I'm wrong.[/quote]
It's no where near proven they found, or will find anythign close to WMD, but WHAT IS PROVEN IS THAT CHENEY LIED ABOUT WMD. The 'Yellow Cake' uranium story given by Cheney to the Congress, American President, UN, and the American People was A LIE. He KNEW it was a lie, but used it as a pretext for war. Why don't you answer why CHENEY LIED to get this war started, maybe his friends in Halliburton who are paying him millions of dollars had something to do with it.
Even if they find WMD, There is no way any kind of WMD Iraq was A IMMEDIATE THREAT DEMANDING A INVASION.
Dick Cheney "Yellow Cake" Uranium story Chronology
Appendix: Chronology
* Sometime in late 2001, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency received a series of documents on the letterhead of the Niger government, detailing repeated attempts by Iraq to purchase vast quantities of uranium oxide ?yellow cake,? a precursor for nuclear weapons.
* In early 2002, Vice President Cheney requested that the documents be investigated and, as a result, a former U.S. Ambassador to African countries was dispatched to Niger.
* Sometime in February 2002, officials of the CIA, the State Department and the Vice President were informed by the ex-Ambassador that the documents were forgeries. The fact that the documents were forgeries was reported around the Bush Administration.
* Nevertheless, on Sept. 24, 2002, Bush Administration officials and CIA officials briefed Congressional leaders that the Iraqis were attempting to purchase ?yellow cake? from an African country. The same day, the Office of British Prime Minister Tony Blair published a dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, foisting the same false information about the Niger uranium purchases.
* On Dec. 19, 2002, the U.S. State Department published a one-page fact sheet, disputing Iraq's weapons declarations to the United Nations Security Council, again citing the Niger sales of ?yellow cake? to Iraq.
* During January 2003, every top national security official of the Bush Administration, including National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and President Bush, himself, cited Iraq's efforts to obtain nuclear materials from Africa, in briefings, interviews and, in the case of George Bush, in his State of the Union address.
* On March 7, 2003, Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) delivered testimony before the United Nations Security Council, in which he exposed the Niger documents as shoddy frauds.
* Even following the ElBaradei public revelations, Vice President Dick Cheney, appearing on March 16 on ?Meet the Press,? repeated the Iraq nuclear material lie.
U.S. Representative Henry Waxman (Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, sent a letter to President George W. Bush, demanding a full explanation from the Administration, as to why senior officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and the President himself "cited forged evidence about Iraq's efforts to obtain nuclear materials."
Rep. Waxman To Pres. Bush: ?Explain Why You Cited Forged Evidence'THE REP. HENRY WAXMAN LETTER: Who Knew What, and When?