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DrHuk&Duck said:
I’m not going to go along with his rhetoric on the 9/11 stuff, but since we’re on the topic of the Middle East, I’m still waiting for evidence of those WMDs in Iraq that was used as justification for that part of the war initiated by George W. Bush. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Everyone was agreed at the time that Iraq possessed WMDs. It was only later that it was decided the intelligence was faulty. In any case, Saddam Hussein having WMDs was only one of several justifications for the Iraq invasion. Some were specific (e.g. Iraq's non-compliance with UN weapons inspectors, their attempted assassination of George H. W. Bush in 1993), and some were more abstract (harbouring al-Qaeda members, financing terrorism, human rights abuses, etc.). But the invasion was deemed justifiable on more than one ground.
 
Ransom said:
Everyone was agreed at the time that Iraq possessed WMDs. It was only later that it was decided the intelligence was faulty. In any case, Saddam Hussein having WMDs was only one of several justifications for the Iraq invasion. Some were specific (e.g. Iraq's non-compliance with UN weapons inspectors, their attempted assassination of George H. W. Bush in 1993), and some were more abstract (harbouring al-Qaeda members, financing terrorism, human rights abuses, etc.). But the invasion was deemed justifiable on more than one ground.
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Yep! That’s what they told us.
 
Ransom said:
Everyone was agreed at the time that Iraq possessed WMDs. It was only later that it was decided the intelligence was faulty. In any case, Saddam Hussein having WMDs was only one of several justifications for the Iraq invasion. Some were specific (e.g. Iraq's non-compliance with UN weapons inspectors, their attempted assassination of George H. W. Bush in 1993), and some were more abstract (harbouring al-Qaeda members, financing terrorism, human rights abuses, etc.). But the invasion was deemed justifiable on more than one ground.
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Well stated.

It's also pretty easy to use the Googles and find that Iraq was killing off Kurds WITH WMD's. They were there at some point.
 
GeneFrenkle said:
Well stated.

It's also pretty easy to use the Googles and find that Iraq was killing off Kurds WITH WMD's. They were there at some point.
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While I was a pastor in Sioux City, IA, I met a Kurdish man who told me many of the terrors suffered in Iraq under Hussein, including gassing and bombing villages. It was a real reign of terror.
 
GeneFrenkle said:
It's also pretty easy to use the Googles and find that Iraq was killing off Kurds WITH WMD's. They were there at some point.
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Yeah, that's what I meant by "other human rights abuses." The phrasing "gassing the Kurds" just didn't come to me at the time. And you're right: Hussein had weapons of mass destruction at one time--and used them. Wasn't farfetched to believe he was still manufacturing them, especially if the intelligence seemed to point that way.
 
Ransom said:
Yeah, that's what I meant by "other human rights abuses." The phrasing "gassing the Kurds" just didn't come to me at the time. And you're right: Hussein had weapons of mass destruction at one time--and used them. Wasn't farfetched to believe he was still manufacturing them, especially if the intelligence seemed to point that way.
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The reason, and several I've read agree with this, that Bush never mentions the gas-filled artillery shells found in Iraq is that the CIA provided them. Remember, Saddam was their asset.
 
IFB X-Files said:
The reason, and several I've read agree with this, that Bush never mentions the gas-filled artillery shells found in Iraq is that the CIA provided them. Remember, Saddam was their asset.
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The enemy of my enemy bit...
 
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