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(46,337 posts)
Thu Aug 29, 2013, 01:57 PM Aug 2013

Gomer still claims Saddam had WMD's including nukes...

Can't anyone just throw a net over this guy?

Gohmert: Iraq Had WMD, 'Rumors' They Moved Stockpile To Syria

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Thursday, 8/29/2013 1:45 pm

Discussing the Syria crisis yesterday, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) insisted that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, even though the government’s Iraq Survey Group found that the country did not possess such weapons or the capability of producing them. “Yes, we knew that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,” Gohmert said on Washington Watch, citing Saddam Hussein’s 1988 gas attack against Kurds in Halabja. “There were rumors about them moving over into Syria and other countries but they never were able to verify where they went but we knew he had them,” the congressman charged, referring to false claims that Iraq moved its weapons to Syria. “There was talk about nuclear arms, but we knew he had those and now we know Syria has them.” The ISG report confirmed that Iraq also had no nuclear program.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gohmert-iraq-had-wmd-rumors-they-moved-stockpile-syria#sthash.CC0qLPyJ.dpuf

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Gomer still claims Saddam had WMD's including nukes... (Original Post) Archae Aug 2013 OP
This started last week - there was alsame Aug 2013 #1
Sounds like another member of CJCRANE Aug 2013 #2
Is he putting that on his resume for White House Spokesman? Tierra_y_Libertad Aug 2013 #3
The Weapons of Mass Destruction which Iraq had and we sold them, had a shelf life of about 10 years. RC Aug 2013 #4

alsame

(7,784 posts)
1. This started last week - there was
Thu Aug 29, 2013, 01:59 PM
Aug 2013

some GOP woman on CNN claiming all the Syrian weapons were from Saddam.

I suspect this will be official GOP talking point because it will 1) encourage military action by us and 2) vindicate Bushco for their WMD claims.

 

RC

(25,592 posts)
4. The Weapons of Mass Destruction which Iraq had and we sold them, had a shelf life of about 10 years.
Thu Aug 29, 2013, 02:25 PM
Aug 2013

That ten years was well past, when bu$h, the lesser used those WMD as an excuse to attack an innocent country.
Saddam had already destroyed those weapons. His crime was not doing the proper paperwork to prove he had done so.
Whatever, even if they had been moved to Syria, they would be total infective today.


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