Now who are the liars

Lmandrake · Post by **Lmandrake** » Sun May 23, 2004 12:12 am

Everybody agreed Saddam was a threat. But the Bush admnistration said they believed he had nukes, had unmanned aerial vehicles, bunkers in specific locations with chemical weapons, 100 to 500 tons of chemical weapons, was buying uranium and tools to build nukes. This was either reckless exagerration or outright lies. Either way, it was done to sell the war and very few politicians (being politicians after all) wanted to stand in front of a runaway train once the war fever took.

Besides that, who was going to say Saddam was not a threat. Was there an upside to taking the opposite position?

I do agree that there is some monday morning quarterbacking going on now in regards to the occupation of Iraq, but I don't think that it is accurate to say that all democrats or even all republicans had the same opinion about what to do about Saddam as the administration did. There was agreement that Saddam was a bad guy but a lot less agreement about what to do about it. The administration wanted a war and they needed to sell it to the American people and make it dangerous for their critics and adersaries to speak out against war as an option.

They did an admirable job of doing just that. But with the exception of one artillery shell, none of the things the administration described to sell the war appear to exist. If that shell weighed 50 pounds, that means somebody needs to find 19,999 more to make the 100 tons that was the lowest figure Powell said Iraq had.

nitro237 · Post by **nitro237** » Sun May 23, 2004 2:50 am

Excellent response Lmandrake .

I might not agree with your position , but I respect a guy that can respond without bashing others because they have different views .

Red Dawn · Post by **Red Dawn** » Sun May 23, 2004 5:26 am

Originally posted by nitro237
Sorry , it was definitely just an analogy , figured everyone realized that .

Red Dawn , were you able to get the point I was trying to make or did the Super Bowl totally throw you ?

Sorry Phil, no offense ment

dadx2mj · Post by **dadx2mj** » Sun May 23, 2004 9:49 am

Originally posted by nitro237
Excellent response Lmandrake .

I might not agree with your position , but I respect a guy that can respond without bashing others because they have different views .

Once again I have to agree with nitro.

Oatmeal · Post by **Oatmeal** » Sun May 23, 2004 7:42 pm

Originally posted by Lmandrake
Everybody agreed Saddam was a threat. But the Bush admnistration said they believed he had nukes, had unmanned aerial vehicles, bunkers in specific locations with chemical weapons, 100 to 500 tons of chemical weapons, was buying uranium and tools to build nukes.

Everyone said that. First post.

raz · Post by **raz** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 8:51 pm

Actually there is a difference.

Person #1 - "We believe SH has WMD."
Person #2 - "We know SH has WMD."

Notice the difference?