"We all thought he had WMD...yada yada"

[SHRED]

This is what spoonfed lazy liars say.
Those who were unwilling, or too lazy, to do a little pre-invasion research.
Now 2000 are dead and 100's of thousands of lives ruined.
:mad:

[Mizmoon]

1. All except millions of protestors, Hans Blix, Scott Ritter,

and everyone else with a functioning brain.

[LynnTheDem]

4. the CIA...the DoE...the IAEA...the UN...the USAF...the US State Dept...

Even semi-functioning brains knew it was bullshit.

[cry baby]

2. that phrase enrages me, too. "We" - who the frick is "We"?

There were some who didn't believe the lies.

[mrcheerful]

5. Really, the way I remember it

was that I questioned the WMD's from the start, after all daddy Bush pretty much destroyed all of Saddams weapons during the first gulf war. Remember, Saddam was going to drop scuds on the shores of The united states? Then for almost 20 years we had pretty much cut Saddams imports off. Remember repukes were whinning that we were straving those poor Iraqi people with our embargos of Saddam?

[cry baby]

15. I wasn't part of that "We" either.

And even if they had WMDs, I was still against going into a pre-emptive war. That is just not how the US does things.

I believed the inspectors that had been there and were trained to look for WMDs. They said there were none.

[Mutley]

3. And to that I say two things...

1) a whole war was started based on a "mistake". When is it time to make reparations for that mistake?

2) If it is true that the Bush Admin REALLY didn't know that there were no more WMDs in Iraq, then when their mistake became apparent, why didn't they come clean? Why did they suddenly change their reason for going to Iraq to "spreading democracy"?

[LynnTheDem]

6. 3) I KNEW. If *I* am smarter than the President of the USA, then

the President of the USA is too fucking stupid to be the President of the USA.

TWO CHOICES; bush KNEW and LIED....or bush is STUPID.

Doesn't matter which; either way, he is not qualified for the job.

[mrcheerful]

7. I figured it out,

all repukes carry a mouse in their pocket so they can say ''we''

[ewagner]

8. Heard the talking points on CSPAN

this morning from the Republican callers...

All our Allies KNEW Saddam had WMDs
Clinton at the end of his term said Saddam had WMDs
John Edwards said he was sure Saddam had WMDs
Kerry voted FOR the War but against the appropriations.


on and on and on and on and on


And the icing on the cake was a caller who said:

"You don't have to watch and Oliver Stone movie to know that there's a Democratic conspiracy against this President."

crap....just pure crap

[dmkinsey]

13. NPR too,

"everybody thought Saddam had WMD's"
Didn't catch the guy's name

[ewagner]

16. Gotta hand it to those Repubs

they're efficient as hell getting the talking points out to all media outlets....

they've been working on it for 40+ years so I suppose they should be good at it by now.

[tabasco]

9. Lest we forget the innocent Iraqis who have been killed ...

and the tens of thousands of seriously wounded and maimed.

The fraudulent build-up to the Iraq war by Bush, Cheney,and the corporate cabal was a crime against humanity. All persons responsible should be tried and punished in a court of competent jurisdiction.

But Dick Cheney made 8 million (hmmmm... after he "severed all financial ties" to Halliburton), so the news is good for him.

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. No we didn't

and I've got the links and the documents to prove it.

Liars.

I guess they don't remember Scott Ritter going around all the networks trying to tell everyone that Saddam didn't have WMD's.

[Lasher]

11. Colin Powell knew Iraq was not a threat

In February 2003, Powell said: "We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more."

But two years earlier, Powell said just the opposite. The occasion was a press conference on 24 February 2001 during Powell's visit to Cairo, Egypt. Answering a question about the US-led sanctions against Iraq, the Secretary of State said:

"We had a good discussion, the Foreign Minister and I and the President and I, had a good discussion about the nature of the sanctions -- the fact that the sanctions exist -- not for the purpose of hurting the Iraqi people, but for the purpose of keeping in check Saddam Hussein's ambitions toward developing weapons of mass destruction. We should constantly be reviewing our policies, constantly be looking at those sanctions to make sure that they are directed toward that purpose. That purpose is every bit as important now as it was ten years ago when we began it. And frankly they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors. So in effect, our policies have strengthened the security of the neighbors of Iraq..."

http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/powell-no-wmd.htm

Dubya and his gang deliberately changed their rhetoric in 2002 to sell the invasion of Iraq. They knew Iraq was not a threat, and they lied.

http://www.rotten.com/library/history/war/wmd/saddam/

[DemoTex]

12. Let Bu$hco try to tell that to the tribunal at the Hague.

See where that gets 'em.

[harlinchi]

14. Speakin' French pretty good, now, ain't they!

Oui.

Whatchu mean we, white man?

[No Exit]

17. I never thought he had WMD's, but I also didn't care if he did.

LOTS of countries have them. Some of those countries' names begin with "I". But... so what?

On the one hand, the Bush jingoism-and-propaganda machine repeatedly assures us that our forces are the greatest and mightiest in the world.

Then, out of the other side of their foul mouth, they tell us we are somehow threatened by Iraq (or...LOL! Syria!), which, compared to us, has/had little power.

[kentuck]

18. A point that needs more coverage....

It wasn't "everybody"...It was almost nobody. We lost France and Germany, our allies, early on. The only ally Bush could talk into the invasion was Britain. That's hardly "everybody".

[Terran]

19. Bill Kristol said that on the Daily Show the other day

It must be the Official Last Talking Point on Iraq. I almost threw a beer bottle at the screen.