There is no democracy in Iraq, Iraq civil code is based on Sharia law which among other things tells people especially women who they can and cannot marry based Islam,
women had more rights under Sadaam Hussein than they do now
http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_774.html
http://houzanmahmoud.blogspot.com/2010/04/do-iraqs-women-miss-saddam.html
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]That is not democracy no matter what some fool of a politician says, and only a bigger fool would believe it
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The only way you can say he did not is if you say Hans Blix was lying to the UN - most likely to keep his well paying job. This is, of course, a possibility. But if we assume he was not lying to the UN, then we must say he found WMDs in Iraq in 2003.
Do you think Blix lied to the UN in his report?
Blix never claimed to have found WMD's in the report you cite. His team found bits & pieces of chemical munitions, and no chemical weapons agents other than the 14 declared shells that had been awaiting destruction since 1997. It's right there in the UN document you quoted. Empty warheads, warheads filled with water, and warheads filled with HE are *not* WMD's, no matter how desperately you want them to be. Blix never claimed that they were.
The rest? Your "sources" merely cite each other & wikileaks materials they never produce, along with a great deal of supposition, projection, and the usual fearmongering. They're not sources for anything other than obvious disinformation, the sources of the OP's dismay.
Here's the ultimate source wrt the matter correctly pointing out that Iraq had no WMD's-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_A77N5WKWM
The "capacity to produce WMD's" is one of the great diversionary tactics used as apologism- the tech is 100 years old- any society that can produce basic chemicals & artillery shells can produce WMD's.
Real stockpiles of chemical weapons along the lines of what were alleged to have existed in Iraq-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueblo_Chemical_Depot
http://current.com/community/901312...roying-huge-stockpile-of-chemical-weapons.htm
No such stockpiles were found in Iraq.
The facts outweight [sic] the anti-American, liberal bullshit going around. Saddam HAD WMD.
Whether Bush says Iraq had WMD or not, I personally know Marines who were attacked with chemical weapons in 2003 during the invasion of Iraq. I personally know Marines who met Iraqis that worked in facilities that had built WMD as late as March of 2003.
Blix never claimed to have found WMD's in the report you cite. His team found bits & pieces of chemical munitions, and no chemical weapons agents other than the 14 declared shells that had been awaiting destruction since 1997. It's right there in the UN document you quoted. Empty warheads, warheads filled with water, and warheads filled with HE are *not* WMD's, no matter how desperately you want them to be. Blix never claimed that they were.
The rest? Your "sources" merely cite each other & wikileaks materials they never produce, along with a great deal of supposition, projection, and the usual fearmongering. They're not sources for anything other than obvious disinformation, the sources of the OP's dismay.
Here's the ultimate source wrt the matter correctly pointing out that Iraq had no WMD's-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_A77N5WKWM
The "capacity to produce WMD's" is one of the great diversionary tactics used as apologism- the tech is 100 years old- any society that can produce basic chemicals & artillery shells can produce WMD's.
The denial on the right is amazing. Bush states Iraq had no WMDs. But just look at some of the comments to that YouTube:
Right. Bush states "no WMDs," but this guy has "facts" to the contrary.
This second guy believes that the Bush administration wouldn't have jumped through hoops to produce even one example of "marines who were attacked with chemical weapons in 2003 during the invation of Iraq." Yet this guy "personally knows" that this is true.
You can't fix stupid. You can't fix true believers.
Your analogy is wrong. A more apt analogy would be you claiming a bottle filled with water is acid because it says "Sulfuric Acid" on the outside. It may be intended for acid, but it's really just a bottle of water. Blix & Co. found warheads that were designed for biological and chemical agents.When you claim that chemical warheads and munitions without all the parts in them are not WMDs, you are also saying a nuclear weapon without the detonator is not a WMD. That is silly.
Wrong. You're once again making up your own definitions to fit your agenda. The term "WMD" as coined by the Bush administration specifically referred to what had until then been called "ABC" weapons: Atomic, Biological, and Chemical. Cluster bombs, in and of themselves, do NOT qualify. What Blix examined (item 86) were cluster munitions designed for chemical or biological use. They did NOT find any loaded with agents, however. Therefore, though they were certainly capable of becoming "WMDs", they were not actual WMDs.A cluster bomb is a WMD.
No, once again, Blix found undeclared BC-capable warheads (items 88 & 122), but they were either empty or filled with water. Wannabe WMDs? Yes. Actual WMDs? No.His report also states they found UNDECLARED WMDs, and when they did Iraq quickly declared slightly over a dozen MORE UNDECLARED WMDs they had "forgotten" about.
It shows exactly what I have claimed - WMDs were found in Iraq shortly before the invasion.
Semantics duhversions aside, the real, inarguable point is that the Bush administration used false allegations to sell its invasion of Iraq. Iraq simply, factually, did not have the massive stockpiles asserted as fact by the Bush administration. They did not have the "30,000 liters of Sarin" (or whatever the exact claim was, it's been too long), the mobile WMD labs, the fleet of UAVs posed to strike American soil, etc. The aluminum tubes were not "only suited" for use in enrichment centrifuges as BushCo asserted; indeed they were unsuited for that use. The list goes on and on.I will watch the youtube video later...but I never claimed they had an active WMD program. In fact, I said the exact opposite. This does not mean none were found, though, as they are different things.
When you claim that chemical warheads and munitions without all the parts in them are not WMDs, you are also saying a nuclear weapon without the detonator is not a WMD. That is silly.
A cluster bomb is a WMD.
His report also states they found UNDECLARED WMDs, and when they did Iraq quickly declared slightly over a dozen MORE UNDECLARED WMDs they had "forgotten" about.
It shows exactly what I have claimed - WMDs were found in Iraq shortly before the invasion.
I will watch the youtube video later...but I never claimed they had an active WMD program. In fact, I said the exact opposite. This does not mean none were found, though, as they are different things.
Well, to be fair, the British, Russian, and American intelligence services all said Iraq did too...including Hans Blix in one of his last reports to the UN also said he found prescribed WMD devices.
Your analogy is wrong. A more apt analogy would be you claiming a bottle filled with water is acid because it says "Sulfuric Acid" on the outside. It may be intended for acid, but it's really just a bottle of water. Blix & Co. found warheads that were designed for biological and chemical agents.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/terrorism/wmd/wmd_faqsWhat are Weapons of Mass Destruction?
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) are defined in US law (18 USC §2332a) as:
“(A) any destructive device as defined in section 921 of this title (i.e. explosive device);
(B) any weapon that is designed or intended to cause death or serious bodily injury through the release, dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals, or their precursors;
(C) any weapon involving a biological agent, toxin, or vector (as those terms are defined in section 178 of this title)(D) any weapon that is designed to release radiation or radioactivity at a level dangerous to human life.”
WMD is often referred to by the collection of modalities that make up the set of weapons: chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE). These are weapons that have a relatively large-scale impact on people, property, and/or infrastructure.
Wrong. You're once again making up your own definitions to fit your agenda. The term "WMD" as coined by the Bush administration specifically referred to what had until then been called "ABC" weapons: Atomic, Biological, and Chemical. Cluster bombs, in and of themselves, do NOT qualify. What Blix examined (item 86) were cluster munitions designed for chemical or biological use. They did NOT find any loaded with agents, however. Therefore, though they were certainly capable of becoming "WMDs", they were not actual WMDs.
No, once again, Blix found undeclared BC-capable warheads (items 88 & 122), but they were either empty or filled with water. Wannabe WMDs? Yes. Actual WMDs? No.
BY the way, your statement, "Iraq quickly declared slightly over a dozen MORE UNDECLARED WMDs they had 'forgotten' about" is factually false, at least based on any information you've provided. According to #88, it was four additional warheads, not twelve, and there is no explanation of why Iraq hadn't declared them earlier, your insinuation notwithstanding.
Semantics duhversions aside, the real, inarguable point is that the Bush administration used false allegations to sell its invasion of Iraq. Iraq simply, factually, did not have the massive stockpiles asserted as fact by the Bush administration. They did not have the "30,000 liters of Sarin" (or whatever the exact claim was, it's been too long), the mobile WMD labs, the fleet of UAVs posed to strike American soil, etc. The aluminum tubes were not "only suited" for use in enrichment centrifuges as BushCo asserted; indeed they were unsuited for that use. The list goes on and on.
Chemical weapons w/o chemicals aren't chemical weapons, no matter how many times you try to claim they are. A nuclear weapon is not a nuclear weapon w/o fissionable materials, either.
Untrue, if you read US Law, you will find that the empty weapon (if it was designed to a carry ABR payload) is a WMD.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/terrorism/wmd/wmd_faqs
I am wrong, but not for the reason you came up with. Like you, I was unaware of what the US law says is a WMD and what is not. US Law codifies what ABC weapons are. Having found the actual law, I recant saying cluster bombs are WMDs as I was wrong about them.
This is where you are wrong. They ARE WMDs.
Please...you are the kind of person who also believed the Iraqi Minister of Information when he said there were no US Tanks in Baghdad. Seriously, you think WMDs just appear out of thin air in a building without anyone knowing they existed? They just walked themselves into the building? Really?
Correct, there were no stockpiles nor was there an active nulear or Chem/Bio program. Irrelevant to the fact that there were WMDs found in 2003 by Hans Blix.
According to US Law, a weapon designed to carry a chemical warhead is a WMD even if the chemicals are not currently inside the weapon.
You have a strange idea that democracy means something other than having the ability to vote for your leaders. You need to realize it does not.
Blah, blah, blah. Have time to watch the video? It's only 2:06M...
Comment on that instead of concentrating on weaselism, OK?
I'm sure there were people like yourself back in the day that would have told the slaves in the south, women before they could vote, or the black men and women during the Jim crow days the same thing and believed it.
It was wrong then, it is wrong now just like your relative morality definition of democracy.
I'm sure there were people like yourself back in the day that would have told the slaves in the south, women before they could vote, or the black men and women during the Jim crow days the same thing and believed it.
It was wrong then, it is wrong now just like your relative morality definition of democracy.
Have not watched a YouTube video, as I was busy reading US Law. It is sad you consider the actual law to be weaseling. Tell me, what other US laws do you want to pretend do not exist?
EDIT: Just watched it. He was wrong. Come on, you are not seriously trying to tell me you think Bush is right in everything he ever said, are you? Seems you are cherry picking this to claim he was infallable at this exact moment. Silly Jhhnn.
Are you ready to admit that, by US Law (which is what the President of the US follows, in case you were confused by that bit), there were WMDs found in Iraq? Or are you simply going to pretend US law does not exist?
"The ISG has not found evidence that Saddam possessed WMD stocks in 2003, but [there is] the possibility that some weapons existed in Iraq, although not of a militarily significant capability."
US law is meaningless in an international context,
http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/new/documents/quarterly_reports/s-2003-580.pdf88. The discovery by UNMOVIC of twelve 122 mm chemical warheads and rocket
motors in mid-January 2003 at the Ukhaidar ammunitions depot led to an Iraqi
declaration regarding four additional warheads at Al Taji a few days later.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/terrorism/wmd/wmd_faqsWhat are Weapons of Mass Destruction?
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) are defined in US law (18 USC §2332a) as:
“(A) any destructive device as defined in section 921 of this title (i.e. explosive device);
(B) any weapon that is designed or intended to cause death or serious bodily injury through the release, dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals, or their precursors;
(C) any weapon involving a biological agent, toxin, or vector (as those terms are defined in section 178 of this title)(D) any weapon that is designed to release radiation or radioactivity at a level dangerous to human life.”
WMD is often referred to by the collection of modalities that make up the set of weapons: chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE). These are weapons that have a relatively large-scale impact on people, property, and/or infrastructure.
Still too cowardly to write Hans and asked him which time he lied, the book or the report to the UN?
Careful little troll.....you have been proved wrong on WMD several times, and intentional posting of misinformation is still against the rules. You have been proved wrong several times, so continuing to lie would be willful misinformation.
You have been multi-banned already, you wouldn't want to get in trouble again would you?
Oh, and LOL at claiming Blix lied...cognitive dissonance FTW?
But hey, at least you are not the only ignorant bigot in the US, does that make you feel better somehow?
"Careful little troll", really? That's your A game? That's as menacing as you can manage? You know that sounds like the flamboyant homosexual villein in a b movie, right? Trying to threaten cybrsage into silence is nothing short of absurd. If you have information, provide it. If you have an opinion say it, but leave the alpha male routine for someone with a testicle.
This entire conversation is stupid. The US did not find weapons of mass destruction of the nature described by the United States in the leadup to the Iraq War.
Cybrsage, stop shitting up my thread. If you want to have this boring and horrifyingly stupid argument for the 20th time to fulfill your need for negative attention be my guest, but do so in your own thread.
Seriously. It's mostly a foreign policy poll, but this is yet another sign that one of our political parties has completely lost touch with reality.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~benv/files/poll%20responses%20by%20party%20ID.pdf
Q62: Almost 2/3rds of Republicans believe Iraq had WMD's in 2003.
