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Thursday, August 18, 2005
The Terrorists Now Have WMDs -- After We Went Into Iraq
So, we go to war with Iraq based on the claim by the Bush Administration that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and we needed to keep those weapons out of the hands of terrorists. And then after we invade Iraq and depose Saddam, we learn that he never had WMDs and was years away from getting them. Combined with U.N. Weapons Inspections, there was little risk there of him getting WMDs if we hadn't invaded.
Well, we topple Saddam's regime pretty easily, but have no plan whatsoever for the aftermath and botch the occupation, giving rise to a large and unfortunately very successful insurgency, which involves terrorists who were not in Iraq before we invaded but enter Iraq during our disasterous and poorly planned occupation.
So what do we learn: that the insurgents NOW have WMDs:
U.S. troops raiding a warehouse in the northern city of Mosul uncovered a
suspected chemical weapons factory containing 1,500 gallons of chemicals
believed destined for attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces and civilians, military
officials said Saturday.
Monday's early morning raid found 11 precursor agents, "some of them quite
dangerous by themselves," a military spokesman, Lt. Col. Steven A. Boylan, said
in Baghdad.
Combined, the chemicals would yield an agent capable of "lingering hazards" for those exposed to it, Boylan said. The likely targets would have been "coalition and
Iraqi security forces, and Iraqi civilians," partly because the chemicals would
be difficult to keep from spreading over a wide area, he said.
Boylan said the suspected lab was new, dating from some time after
the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. The Bush administration cited
evidence that Saddam Hussein's government was manufacturing weapons of mass
destruction as the main justification for the invasion. No such weapons or
factories were found.
Good work, Rummy and Co. Boy, if only Bush would get a BJ in the Oval Office, then maybe there would be some reason to impeach him, huh?
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