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Originally Posted by Ron61
Steve,
Ron,
There is other evidence as well, but very few people on this forum seem interested in reading it - I have posted it before. Some comes from the UN team sent in before the war, some comes from our own government reports.
There is plenty from the ISG that cites some of these reports, and if somebody wants to slog through it it can be very educational.
However, despite the majority of evidence indicating that Hussein had nothing that would constitute WMD, there is still no way to prove that he did not as you cannot prove a negative.
I am not arguing with you but I have read so much evidence from so many absolutely reliable sources that completely contradicts what each is saying that I am sceptical of any of them reporting the complete truth. I agree that I haven't seen any evidence of WOMDs discovered since we invaded, but given the warning he had and all of the stuff Syria now has, I still believe he shipped a lot of it to them. However I can't prove that and reading a dozen or so absolutely factual reports to me is a useless waste of time. Search long enough and you can find some factual report saying about anything you want. From now on I believe maybe 1/4th of what I read in the reports, less than that in the news media, about 1/3rd of what I hear from reliable sources, and very little of what I see as I figure that can be faked also.
Ron  |
There was a lot of evidence before the war...most of it from people that hated Saddam and wanted him gone. Certain elements in our government took these words as absolutes and used them in justifying our invasion, It was convenient and easy. When reality set in years later, we found much of what these informants said to be half-truths. Nothing was found. Week after week we heard wild-eyed stories of new finds only to find that they were not verified and later turned out to be nothing.
It is obvious Saddam had WMD at one time, but the question remains; Did he have them when we invaded? No. And from the condition of the building and holding sites where the WMD were claimed to have been hidden, nothing had been there for years.
The whole thing was a farce. From Rumsfeld telling us he knew exactly where they were hidden down to the utterly ridiculously small amounts of money Bush told us it was going to take invade Iraq and run the country.
The sooner some of you take off your tinfoil hats, the better off we will all be. Wild-eyed speculation and conspiracy theories got us into the mess in Iraq, and 5 years later, the same nonsense is still being rehashed.