The longer we stay, the more terrorists

[AROCES]

There once was a vice-president named Gore/

Who wouldn't have rushed us to war/

But instead we got Cheney/

And his sidekick No Brainy/

And our country's respected no more.

Cliff Shecter

Just a little limerick i read today lol... sad but true

And we surely got respect prior to that, and 9/11 was the proof.

[Aztec Warrior]

QUOTE(Aztec Warrior @ Jul 23 2007, 07:40 PM)

The UN found all kinds. The rest were shipped out the back door to Syria, while the inept and bumbling inspectors were knocking on the front.

references please

I shouldn't have to do your homework for you.

Iraq and weapons of mass destruction concerns the Iraqi government's use, possession, and alleged intention of acquiring more types of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) during the presidency of Saddam Hussein. During his reign of several decades, he was internationally known for his use of chemical weapons in the 1980s against civilians and in the Iran-Iraq War. Following the 1991 Gulf War he also engaged in a decade-long confrontation with the United Nations and its weapons inspectors, which ended in the 2003 invasion by the United States.

The United Nations located and destroyed large quantities of Iraqi WMD throughout the 1990s in spite of persistent Iraqi obstruction.

On August 14, 2005, The Washington Post published an article reporting a raid on a suspected chemical weapons facility in Iraq where (according to the US military) chemical weapons had been uncovered and were now in the process of being classified. The Post reported that "the suspected lab was new, dating from some time after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003."[70]

The Washington Times editorialized on a moment on the "Saddam tapes" that revealed "Saddam was actively working on a plan to enrich uranium using a technique known as plasma separation. This is particularly worrisome because of the date of the conversation: It took place in 2000, nearly five years after Iraq's nuclear programs were thought to have stopped."Link for lazy people

Edited July 26, 2007 by Aztec Warrior

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The Washington Times editorialized on a moment on the "Saddam tapes" that revealed "Saddam was actively working on a plan to enrich uranium using a technique known as plasma separation. This is particularly worrisome because of the date of the conversation: It took place in 2000, nearly five years after Iraq's nuclear programs were thought to have stopped."Link for lazy people

We know those tapes that came to light in the aftermath of Saddam "buying" Uranium in Africa. If that is the best you can come up with... does Plame sound like something you know?

The point there is that there were wild turkey chases all over the country in the aftermath of the first Gulf War fueled by "reliable" intelligence information that led to zilch.

And every time the UN inspectors came back with nothing there was the CIA and MI5 claiming there was something. Then the turkey chase started again, and returned zilch.

The proof is that there was nothing found that could have even have led to the suspicion that Saddam had a functional WMD program. Or that he had ever had one. More points into the direction that the few WMD's he ever had were with compliment of a "friendly" power.

Not even the intensive searches after Gulf War II turned up anything useful. And nobody can say that they have been hampered with, because the hamperer in chief was hiding in an earth hole.

Now, if you say that there was a weapons program that the UN dismantled, yes, the construction of SCUD missiles. And those were the spectacular pictures you've seen on Television.