GarfieldtheCat
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- Jan 7, 2005
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Man, even for a liberal you are dense.
Wow, do you always start you comments with personal insults?
First, you say I "spout ignorance and bullshit".
Now, you insult me by calling me a liberal. Really shows a lot of class from you. I guess when you can't argue the subject, you fall back to personal attacks. Standard neocon playbook. Insult the messenger and call them a liberal, regardless of their views.
Hint: I am no liberal. I'm a republican, but I am certainly no neocon. I won't sit back and ignore things just because it's "my" party that does it. Sorry. I'll make up my own mind and complain about both parties when they do something wrong.
When my President lies about invading a country, that costs over 100,000 lives, you bet I will complain, regardless of an R or D after his name. Why don't you? We caused over 100,000 innocent people to be killed. You continue to ignore this, does this not matter to you?
The fact is WMD were not found. There was no real link between AQ and Saddam.
By March 2003, Hans Blix had found no stockpiles of WMD and had made significant progress toward resolving open issues of disarmament noting "proactive" but not always the "immediate" Iraqi cooperation as called for by UN Security Council Resolution 1441. He concluded that it would take but months to resolve the key remaining disarmament tasks.[4] The United States asserted this was a breach of Resolution 1441 but failed to convince the UN Security Council to pass a new resolution authorizing the use of force due to lack of evidence.[5][6][7] Despite being unable to get a new resolution authorizing force and citing section 3 of the Joint Resolution passed by the U.S. Congress,[8] President Bush asserted peaceful measures couldn't disarm Iraq of the weapons he alleged it to have and launched a second Gulf War,[9] despite multiple dissenting opinions[10] and questions of integrity[11][12][13] about the underlying intelligence.[14] Later U.S.-led inspections agreed that Iraq had earlier abandoned its WMD programs, but asserted Iraq had an intention to pursue those programs if UN sanctions were ever lifted.[15] President Bush later said that the biggest regret of his presidency was "the intelligence failure" in Iraq,[16] while the Senate Intelligence Committee found in 2008 that his administration "misrepresented the intelligence and the threat from Iraq".[17]
So Congress and Bush himself admit the "failure", and that there were no WMD found.
So you can continue to believe what you want, it's still a mostly free country, but Bush, Congress, and the rest of the world all realized that no WMD were found. And to be very clear, so you can't miss it, here is the Congressional report on the intel failures:
http://intelligence.senate.gov/phaseiiaccuracy.pdf
Read and be enlightened. Specifically, read the conclusions staring on page 52. It will bluntly say that all the pre-war assertions made by Bush were wrong about WMD. I guess you don't believe a republican controlled Congressional report either, huh?
It will also note that Curveball (the wonder person who base your posts on, and the one I said was a drunk ex-pat who the CIA threw money at), was found to have been wrong time and time again. Just like I posted earlier.
Note that I don't think Saddam was a nice or good person, or that given the chance, he would have tried to restart those programs. But the UN sanctions and oversight was working, and had stopped him from restarting any WMD programs.