VP Pick Mike Pence: "WMDs Have Been Found in Iraq"

[L. Coyote]

VP Pick Mike Pence in 2004: "WMDs Have Been Found in Iraq"

.... video footage of Mike Pence resurfaced Thursday of Pence testifying on the floor of the House of Representatives in 2004 that weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq.

Rep. Mike Pence: "Despite the national media’s best efforts to minimize the news, I am here to report, as the United States military confirmed in Iraq on Monday, weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq. … 'Where are the WMDs?' we’ve been asked again and again. Mr. Speaker, they’re there—they’re where they’ve always been—hidden in Iraq, within the reach of terrorists, a threat to the Iraqi people, U.S. soldiers and the world."

Those are the words of then-Indiana Congressmember Mike Pence. He is now Indiana governor and Donald Trump’s running mate. The story was first reported by Salon on Thursday.

Thursday, Jul 21, 2016
Mike Pence’s Iraq lie: The VP candidate (wrongly) announced the discovery of WMDs
In 2004, Mike Pence tried to help George W. Bush by declaring "weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq"

.... Here’s what actually happened. Pence, in claiming that WMDs had been found, was way out ahead of the Bush administration itself, which was unwilling to wave around the discovery of these munitions as validation of its rationale for war. The reason the administration held back was simple: they weren’t the weapons Bush and his top officials had warned about. They were old munitions from the weapons program Saddam Hussein had discontinued in 1991. The Bush administration’s argument for the war was that the Iraqi dictator had restarted chemical weapons production and stockpiled new WMDs.

Indeed, contemporaneous news reports show Bush administration officials urging caution in drawing any conclusions from the discovery the munitions. Here’s what the Associated Press reported on May 18, 2004: .............

[sarae]

1. Mike Pence seems like he'd sell his own mother down the river.

[AwakeAtLast]

6. Yup, you've got him pegged all right

He might be in a prettier package, but on the inside, just as ugly as Trump.

[Uben]

2. Ole lyin' MIke! He hasn't got a fucking clue.

Talk about a dumbass blind Cheney follower! This guy is dumber than a box of rocks and he will tell you that Trump is God (if he's told to). He's a good example of what the republican party has become......nothing but a big steamin pile of crap!

[Hortensis]

4. That's pretty much my take. Everthing I've

read about him has become more and more predictable. You could have asked his position on WMD in Iraq, and I would have been happy to put our grocery money on a sucker bet. Trump may not have been happy with him, but he's an authoritarian and Pence is a strong authoritarian follower.



How Pence himself plans it is also predictable. He follows other authoritarians, like the infinitely more powerful Kochs and, of course, the Ultimate Authoritarian Leader.

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Btw, Pence will not be able to attend the Kochs' summer donor summit as usual this year, but next year.

[scscholar]

3. There were, but there weren't enough to count!

My friend's son died there from a found artillery shell. Claiming there without the qualifier that there wasn't enough to count is disingenuous.

[calguy]

5. Mike DENSE

[Warren DeMontague]

7. The guy's a fucking creationist.

Any resemblance between the gibberish in his head and actual reality is tenuous at best.