Why would anyone continue to claim the iraqi war was a failure?

[Unkotare]

"Why would anyone continue to claim the iraqi war was a failure? "

Ha lo l- uh maybe because there was [sic] no weapons of mass destruction

Yes there were.

No, there were not. ]

Do you feel like changing or qualifying that statement now?

 

[JRK]

Yes there were.

No, there were not. ]

Do you feel like changing or qualifying that statement now?

he will not change his mind with the facts starring him right in the face
its about this country, ot GWB

 

[BlindBoo]

Yes there were.

No, there were not. How many people have to say it before it penetrates thick heads like yours?? This is one of the better articles I saved on the topic.

George Tenet briefed Bush on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction. Bush totally ignored it and Tenet never mentioned it again.

Secretary of State Powell, in preparation for his presentation of evidence of Saddam's WMD to the United Nations Security Council on Feb. 5, 2003, spent days at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., and had Tenet sit directly behind him as a sign of credibility. But Tenet, according to the sources, never told Powell about existing intelligence that there were no WMD's, and Powell's speech was later revealed to be a series of falsehoods.

Ring a bell???

Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction - Iraq war - Salon.com

Speaking of bell ringing
this is report is about 10 weeks prior to our invasion Your post is not even 1/2 true
These items have never been found
it is the smoking gun
Saddam claimed this stuff existed, not the UN, not GWB

Blix: weapons and anthrax still unaccounted for - Telegraph
Of the declaration of weapons made by Iraq under UN resolution 1441, he said: "Regrettably, the 12,000-page declaration does not seem to contain any new material."

Mr Blix said the declaration had failed to account for 6,500 chemical warfare bombs, adding that 12 empty chemical warheads recently found in a bunker south of Baghdad "could be the tip of the iceberg".

Iraq had also failed to prove it had destroyed all of its anthrax, Mr Blix said. There were "strong indications" that it had produced more than it had admitted.

He recalled that Iraq had declared that it produced 8,500 litres of anthrax and unilaterally destroyed the stock in the summer of 1991. But there was "no convincing evidence of destruction," he said.

He added that Iraq had not fully accounted for stocks of precursor chemicals used to make VX nerve gas. Baghdad had also lied about how close it had come to weaponising the gas in the late 1980s.

BBC News - Iraq inquiry: Former UN inspector Blix says war illegal

Asked about the inspections he oversaw between November 2002 and 18 March 2003 - when his team was forced to pull out of Iraq on the eve of the war - he said he was "looking for smoking guns" but did not find any.

While his team discovered prohibited items such as missiles beyond the permitted range, missile engines and a stash of undeclared documents, he said these were "fragments" and not "very important" in the bigger picture.

"We carried out about six inspections per day over a long period of time.

"All in all, we carried out about 700 inspections at different 500 sites and, in no case, did we find any weapons of mass destruction."

Although Iraq failed to comply with some of its disarmament obligations, he added it "was very hard for them to declare any weapons when they did not have any".

Legal explanation

He criticised decisions that led to the war, saying existing UN resolutions on Iraq did not contain the authority needed, contrary to the case put by the UK government.

For anyone interested here is the full report by Mr. Blix.

Online NewsHour: Chief U.N. Weapons Inspector Hans Blix Report to the U.N. Security Council -- January 27, 2003

 

[MiddleClass]

1) REMOVE SADDAM
DONE
2) STABILIZE COUNTRY
DONE
3) HAVE A REPUBLIC BORN OF THESE EVENTS
DONE

Am missing something here?

Hundreds of Thousands of Civilians Dead
DONE
Thousands of young American men and women American in our Military Dead
DONE
Destruction of an abundant supply of oil production
DONE
Weapons of Mass Destruction found
eh, not done
Stabilized Country
eh, not done

Anyone who thinks the Iraq war has been a success is

 

[BlindBoo]

1) REMOVE SADDAM
DONE
2) STABILIZE COUNTRY
DONE
3) HAVE A REPUBLIC BORN OF THESE EVENTS
DONE

Am missing something here?

Hundreds of Thousands of Civilians Dead
DONE
Thousands of young American men and women American in our Military Dead
DONE
Destruction of an abundant supply of oil production
DONE
Weapons of Mass Destruction found
eh, not done
Stabilized Country
eh, not done

Anyone who thinks the Iraq war has been a success is

Just one problem, the oil supply was not destroyed. To secure the oil fields was one of the objectives the Army achieved almost immediately.

Wonder why?

Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq - UK Politics, UK - The Independent

- Middle East, World - The Independent

But Americans still receive a little of our oil from there.

ftp://ftp.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/p...ons/company_level_imports/current/import.html

 

[Nic_Driver]

No, there were not. How many people have to say it before it penetrates thick heads like yours?? This is one of the better articles I saved on the topic.

George Tenet briefed Bush on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction. Bush totally ignored it and Tenet never mentioned it again.

Secretary of State Powell, in preparation for his presentation of evidence of Saddam's WMD to the United Nations Security Council on Feb. 5, 2003, spent days at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., and had Tenet sit directly behind him as a sign of credibility. But Tenet, according to the sources, never told Powell about existing intelligence that there were no WMD's, and Powell's speech was later revealed to be a series of falsehoods.

Ring a bell???

Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction - Iraq war - Salon.com

Speaking of bell ringing
this is report is about 10 weeks prior to our invasion Your post is not even 1/2 true
These items have never been found
it is the smoking gun
Saddam claimed this stuff existed, not the UN, not GWB

Blix: weapons and anthrax still unaccounted for - Telegraph
Of the declaration of weapons made by Iraq under UN resolution 1441, he said: "Regrettably, the 12,000-page declaration does not seem to contain any new material."

Mr Blix said the declaration had failed to account for 6,500 chemical warfare bombs, adding that 12 empty chemical warheads recently found in a bunker south of Baghdad "could be the tip of the iceberg".

Iraq had also failed to prove it had destroyed all of its anthrax, Mr Blix said. There were "strong indications" that it had produced more than it had admitted.

He recalled that Iraq had declared that it produced 8,500 litres of anthrax and unilaterally destroyed the stock in the summer of 1991. But there was "no convincing evidence of destruction," he said.

He added that Iraq had not fully accounted for stocks of precursor chemicals used to make VX nerve gas. Baghdad had also lied about how close it had come to weaponising the gas in the late 1980s.

BBC News - Iraq inquiry: Former UN inspector Blix says war illegal

Asked about the inspections he oversaw between November 2002 and 18 March 2003 - when his team was forced to pull out of Iraq on the eve of the war - he said he was "looking for smoking guns" but did not find any.

While his team discovered prohibited items such as missiles beyond the permitted range, missile engines and a stash of undeclared documents, he said these were "fragments" and not "very important" in the bigger picture.

"We carried out about six inspections per day over a long period of time.

"All in all, we carried out about 700 inspections at different 500 sites and, in no case, did we find any weapons of mass destruction."

Although Iraq failed to comply with some of its disarmament obligations, he added it "was very hard for them to declare any weapons when they did not have any".

Legal explanation

He criticised decisions that led to the war, saying existing UN resolutions on Iraq did not contain the authority needed, contrary to the case put by the UK government.

For anyone interested here is the full report by Mr. Blix.

Online NewsHour: Chief U.N. Weapons Inspector Hans Blix Report to the U.N. Security Council -- January 27, 2003

I love how the apologist try to use the UN and Blix to justify their invasion of Iraq.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraq war illegal, says Annan

The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has told the BBC the US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter.

No weapons of mass destruction, no UN resolution to invade, no tie to 9/11, cooked and outright fabricated 'intel' from the Bush crew; an epic fail and yet there are still apologist who try to justify it.

Fox really is bad news for America.

http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Iraq/IraqMedia_Oct03/IraqMedia_Oct03_rpt.pdf

 

[OODA_Loop]

Obama thinks it is a sucess he is still prosecuting it and has done nothing he said he would to who started it.

 

[JakeStarkey]

JRK cannot produce the document that the Bush administration broadcast from the top of the Empire State Building, headlined "Here Are The WMDs We Went To War To Find."

End of any discussion.

 

[Unkotare]

The (oft-rebutted) lefty talking points on a continuous loop...

 

[JakeStarkey]

No lefty talking point, just stone cold fact.

The fabled WMDs did not exist, or the admin would have told God, angels, and all witnesses.

No such release was ever made.

 

[JRK]

Speaking of bell ringing
this is report is about 10 weeks prior to our invasion Your post is not even 1/2 true
These items have never been found
it is the smoking gun
Saddam claimed this stuff existed, not the UN, not GWB

Blix: weapons and anthrax still unaccounted for - Telegraph
Of the declaration of weapons made by Iraq under UN resolution 1441, he said: "Regrettably, the 12,000-page declaration does not seem to contain any new material."

Mr Blix said the declaration had failed to account for 6,500 chemical warfare bombs, adding that 12 empty chemical warheads recently found in a bunker south of Baghdad "could be the tip of the iceberg".

Iraq had also failed to prove it had destroyed all of its anthrax, Mr Blix said. There were "strong indications" that it had produced more than it had admitted.

He recalled that Iraq had declared that it produced 8,500 litres of anthrax and unilaterally destroyed the stock in the summer of 1991. But there was "no convincing evidence of destruction," he said.

He added that Iraq had not fully accounted for stocks of precursor chemicals used to make VX nerve gas. Baghdad had also lied about how close it had come to weaponising the gas in the late 1980s.

BBC News - Iraq inquiry: Former UN inspector Blix says war illegal

Asked about the inspections he oversaw between November 2002 and 18 March 2003 - when his team was forced to pull out of Iraq on the eve of the war - he said he was "looking for smoking guns" but did not find any.

While his team discovered prohibited items such as missiles beyond the permitted range, missile engines and a stash of undeclared documents, he said these were "fragments" and not "very important" in the bigger picture.

"We carried out about six inspections per day over a long period of time.

"All in all, we carried out about 700 inspections at different 500 sites and, in no case, did we find any weapons of mass destruction."

Although Iraq failed to comply with some of its disarmament obligations, he added it "was very hard for them to declare any weapons when they did not have any".

Legal explanation

He criticised decisions that led to the war, saying existing UN resolutions on Iraq did not contain the authority needed, contrary to the case put by the UK government.

For anyone interested here is the full report by Mr. Blix.

Online NewsHour: Chief U.N. Weapons Inspector Hans Blix Report to the U.N. Security Council -- January 27, 2003

I love how the apologist try to use the UN and Blix to justify their invasion of Iraq.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraq war illegal, says Annan

The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has told the BBC the US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter.

No weapons of mass destruction, no UN resolution to invade, no tie to 9/11, cooked and outright fabricated 'intel' from the Bush crew; an epic fail and yet there are still apologist who try to justify it.

Fox really is bad news for America.

http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Iraq/IraqMedia_Oct03/IraqMedia_Oct03_rpt.pdf

APLOLOGIST?
WHAT PART OF DENIAL DO YOU LIVE IN?
FROM1/23/2003 just weeks before we invade
NOT BUSH, NOT FROM BLAIR


Iraq has not yet come to genuinely accept disarmament, according to Hans Blix, the United Nations's chief weapons inspector.Iraq has co-operated with his team on providing access but it needed to go further, Mr Blix told the UN Security Council.

He said: "It would appear from our experience so far that Iraq has decided in principle to provide co-operation on process, notably access.

"A similar decision is indispensable to provide co-operation on substance in order to bring the disarmament task to completion, through the peaceful process of inspection, and to bring the monitoring task on a firm course."

Touching on the question of how much time inspectors need, he said he shure taken from Jews'01 Sep 2011(Telegraph News)
A man stoned for gathering sticks02 Sep 2011(Telegraph News)
King Arthur's round table may have been found by archaeologists in Scotland26 Aug 2011(Telegraph News)

Blix's first report following the return of weapons inspectors to Iraq last November.

Of the declaration of weapons made by Iraq under UN resolution 1441, he said: "Regrettably, the 12,000-page declaration does not seem to contain any new material."

Mr Blix said the declaration had failed to account for 6,500 chemical warfare bombs, adding that 12 empty chemical warheads recently found in a bunker south of Baghdad "could be the tip of the iceberg".

(500+ OF THESE MUNITIONS WERE FOUND LATER)

Iraq had also failed to prove it had destroyed all of its anthrax, Mr Blix said. There were "strong indications" that it had produced more than it had admitted.

He recalled that Iraq had declared that it produced 8,500 litres of anthrax and unilaterally destroyed the stock in the summer of 1991. But there was "no convincing evidence of destruction," he said. He added that Iraq had not fully accounted for stocks of precursor chemicals used to make VX nerve gas. Baghdad had also lied about how close it had come to weaponising the gas in the late 1980s.

Mr Blix added that Iraq has refused to co-operate with a request from UN weapons inspectors regarding flights of U-2 spy planes for aerial imagery and surveillance.

(WHY

Mr Blix, who is charged with overseeing the elimination of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons and long-range missiles, was accompanied by Mohamed ElBaradei, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Mr ElBaradei said that his inspectors had found no evidence that Iraq had revived its weapons programme after it was destroyed following the Gulf War.

But he said that inspectors needed more time to provide "credible assurance" that Iraq has no nuclear weapons programme.

He also urged Iraq to provide more information about the pre-1991 weapons programme.

John Negroponte, the United States ambassador to the UN, said that nothing Mr Blix and Mr ElBaradei had said indicated that Iraq had disarmed. He said: "Iraq is back to business as usual."

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BLIX, SADDAM, NOT BUSH
NOT THE CIA
BLIX CHANGING THIS AT A LATER DATE MAKE YOU AND BLIX WHAT?

 

[Unkotare]

How many times have the actual facts been posted? How many times do you bobble-head lefties need to see the same thing before it sinks in?

You are just repeating the talking points over and over and over and over and over...

 

[freedombecki]

JRK cannot produce the document that the Bush administration broadcast from the top of the Empire State Building, headlined "Here Are The WMDs We Went To War To Find."

End of any discussion.

Iraq had WMDs and Terrorist Ties

• Gen. Georges Sada, has charged in his book, "Saddam's Secrets," that Iraq shipped its WMD stockpiles into Syria before the commencement of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
• The Clinton Administration decried Saddam Hussein's defiance of UN Resolutions as he produced WMDs and worked on a nuclear program
• The United States military found more than 500 munitions containing sarin and other gases
• Saddam Hussein had not reported these weapons to the UN weapons inspectors, who failed to find them in their pre-war inspections because he lied by omission.

Here's what happened when we did find the weapons:

For disclosing the existence of chemical weapons in Iraq, Santorum and Hoekstra have been subjected to a verbal firing squad of hate from the anti-war left. Many conservatives have not been much better, citing their disappointment that the announcement was of "only" 500 old shells or canisters.

I can imagine how frustrating it must be for Messrs. Santorum and Hoekstra. You see, I've been in their shoes. In October 2004, I was in contact with reporters from CNS News about their discovery of
Iraqi Intelligence Service documents that proved Hussein had WMDs and ties to terrorist groups.

A television ad was produced, detailing the evidence outlined in the Iraqi documents. CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel all refused to air the ad. You couldn't even pay money to get the truth out.

Officials in the U.S. Department of Defense didn't want to touch the story. By that time, most people in the Bush administration had given up on proving the case for war to a skeptical news media and American public.
The administration chose to make a strategic decision to "move beyond" the issue of WMDs and Iraq's terrorist ties. Since we were already in Iraq, they reasoned, there was no point in prolonging a debate that was largely meaningless.

This was a major mistake.

The Bush administration failed to anticipate how much damage they did to their own credibility when they made the politically motivated decision to stop defending their pre-war claims.

In July 2005, I led a delegation of talk-radio hosts to Iraq as part of the "Voices of Soldiers" tour. While there, I had the chance to meet with and interview Iraqi Lt. Gen. Abdul-Qader Jassim who informed me that Iraq most certainly did have a WMD program and also trained and funded terrorist organizations.

Earlier this month, Gen. Jassim was elevated to assume the position of Iraq's secretary of defense. I think he knows what he's talking about.
However, when the Wall Street Journal wrote about my reporting on Iraq's WMD program and the supporting evidence of those Iraqi documents and Jassim's testimonial, the Journal noted that it could not prove the general even existed. I hope by now they've managed to track him down and ask about Saddam's WMD and terrorist-training program.

See above link for more

Failure to report what our soldiers found is what makes the investigative reporters of the press literal Keystone Cops who did everything wrong.

Why weren't people outraged of this serious omission? I've seen the Bush Administration smeared with excrement over this omission. It's nice to be diplomatic, but unless someone had threatened to release toxins into the USA if they did mention it, the press paved the way for the Bush Administration to get friendly fire in a way that history cannot right.

The press is reluctant to tell the truth when it shows our troops went in there, got bad guys, found the WMDs, found where the nukes went (Syria), and found tons of documents in one of Saddam's private palaces that told them where the Sarin was buried, which they procured. I vaguely recollect having read a passage that said it was an accelerated type of Sarin that was the worst yet developed in killing masses of people. Also, the press omitted many, many stories I read of our troops finding masses of bodies in mass graves in 30 of the Kurdish villages Saddam got. They also found documentation of Saddam using WOMDs on the unwanted children the Iranians sent out to the mine fields to step on and eliminate below-the-surface land mines they didn't want their prize soldiers stepping on, in order to clear areas Saddam had littered with landmines during the war. Saddam didn't want these children finding his damn landmines either.

What does it take to tell the cruel left these things are demanded by the uppity ups at the UN not to be disclosed or they will (fill in the blank) against America?

Centcom military website showed that America went into Iraq with a 40-nation coalition that grew to 80 at one time where I was reading. Then AlQaeda started sending homicidal maniacs with bombs strapped to their bodies and threatening undue harm on many of the allies in the 80-nation coalition against Iraq, blaming the United States for everything.

The Democrats craftily and stealthily voted unanimously to go into Iraq, but come election KA-CHING!!! All of a sudden the Demmies developed a severe case of amnesia, and went into full anti-war, blame-Bush mode.

They've never stopped.

The unanimous vote of Congress to enable the administration to deal with AlQaeda is a matter of record.

AlQaeda fled Afghanistan, and Saddam sent 12 jumbojets to Kabul the day the war was over, gave them a hero's welcome in Iraq, set up multiple terror training camps outside of Baghdad, and mailed megabucks to the families of fallen AlQaeda terrorists who participated in 9/11.

We have proofs positive of the justification of removing Saddam Hussein, including a resolution from the UN that the media has also conveniently omitted from its current memory bank.

In fact, I'm starting to think the press has both short-term and long-term frontal lobe disorientation.
​

 

[JRK]

No lefty talking point, just stone cold fact.

The fabled WMDs did not exist, or the admin would have told God, angels, and all witnesses.

No such release was ever made.

Defense.gov News Article: Munitions Found in Iraq Meet WMD Criteria, Official Says
WHAT DO YOU CALL THIS?
THIS IS FROM THE DOD WHILE GWB WAS THE PRESIDENT IN 2006
THIS WAS MADE IN THE SENATE, NOT THE EMPRE STATE BUILDING

 

[freedombecki]

How many times have the actual facts been posted? How many times do you bobble-head lefties need to see the same thing before it sinks in?

You are just repeating the talking points over and over and over and over and over...

They have to go ask their supervisors what to say, Unkotare, in order to make the facts go away. Sometimes it used to make me want to hurl, but I'm now accustomed to the obfuscating and higher and higher demands that are made to marginalize the poisons that were found in Iraq and the accompanying paperwork found in Saddam's palace basement on instructions of where to disburse the enhanced uranium and nuclear bomb making accoutrements he had received from that German entrepreneur that was on the news 5 or 6 years ago for sending bad things to bad people all over the world--with one agenda, to use them against the USA.

 

[JRK]

How many times have the actual facts been posted? How many times do you bobble-head lefties need to see the same thing before it sinks in?

You are just repeating the talking points over and over and over and over and over...

They have to go ask their supervisors what to say, Unkotare, in order to make the facts go away. Sometimes it used to make me want to hurl, but I'm now accustomed to the obfuscating and higher and higher demands that are made to marginalize the poisons that were found in Iraq and the accompanying paperwork found in Saddam's palace basement on instructions of where to disburse the enhanced uranium and nuclear bomb making accoutrements he had received from that German entrepreneur that was on the news 5 or 6 years ago for sending bad things to bad people all over the world--with one agenda, to use them against the USA.

the truth must be told
4000+ american troops died for this and it is the biggest in justice done
EVER
Saddam could have prevented all of this

 

[Nic_Driver]

BBC News - Iraq inquiry: Former UN inspector Blix says war illegal

Asked about the inspections he oversaw between November 2002 and 18 March 2003 - when his team was forced to pull out of Iraq on the eve of the war - he said he was "looking for smoking guns" but did not find any.

While his team discovered prohibited items such as missiles beyond the permitted range, missile engines and a stash of undeclared documents, he said these were "fragments" and not "very important" in the bigger picture.

"We carried out about six inspections per day over a long period of time.

"All in all, we carried out about 700 inspections at different 500 sites and, in no case, did we find any weapons of mass destruction."

Although Iraq failed to comply with some of its disarmament obligations, he added it "was very hard for them to declare any weapons when they did not have any".

Legal explanation

He criticised decisions that led to the war, saying existing UN resolutions on Iraq did not contain the authority needed, contrary to the case put by the UK government.

For anyone interested here is the full report by Mr. Blix.

Online NewsHour: Chief U.N. Weapons Inspector Hans Blix Report to the U.N. Security Council -- January 27, 2003

I love how the apologist try to use the UN and Blix to justify their invasion of Iraq.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraq war illegal, says Annan

The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has told the BBC the US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter.

No weapons of mass destruction, no UN resolution to invade, no tie to 9/11, cooked and outright fabricated 'intel' from the Bush crew; an epic fail and yet there are still apologist who try to justify it.

Fox really is bad news for America.

http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Iraq/IraqMedia_Oct03/IraqMedia_Oct03_rpt.pdf

APLOLOGIST?
WHAT PART OF DENIAL DO YOU LIVE IN?
FROM1/23/2003 just weeks before we invade
NOT BUSH, NOT FROM BLAIR


Iraq has not yet come to genuinely accept disarmament, according to Hans Blix, the United Nations's chief weapons inspector.Iraq has co-operated with his team on providing access but it needed to go further, Mr Blix told the UN Security Council.

He said: "It would appear from our experience so far that Iraq has decided in principle to provide co-operation on process, notably access.

"A similar decision is indispensable to provide co-operation on substance in order to bring the disarmament task to completion, through the peaceful process of inspection, and to bring the monitoring task on a firm course."

Touching on the question of how much time inspectors need, he said he shure taken from Jews'01 Sep 2011(Telegraph News)
A man stoned for gathering sticks02 Sep 2011(Telegraph News)
King Arthur's round table may have been found by archaeologists in Scotland26 Aug 2011(Telegraph News)

Blix's first report following the return of weapons inspectors to Iraq last November.

Of the declaration of weapons made by Iraq under UN resolution 1441, he said: "Regrettably, the 12,000-page declaration does not seem to contain any new material."

Mr Blix said the declaration had failed to account for 6,500 chemical warfare bombs, adding that 12 empty chemical warheads recently found in a bunker south of Baghdad "could be the tip of the iceberg".

(500+ OF THESE MUNITIONS WERE FOUND LATER)

Iraq had also failed to prove it had destroyed all of its anthrax, Mr Blix said. There were "strong indications" that it had produced more than it had admitted.

He recalled that Iraq had declared that it produced 8,500 litres of anthrax and unilaterally destroyed the stock in the summer of 1991. But there was "no convincing evidence of destruction," he said. He added that Iraq had not fully accounted for stocks of precursor chemicals used to make VX nerve gas. Baghdad had also lied about how close it had come to weaponising the gas in the late 1980s.

Mr Blix added that Iraq has refused to co-operate with a request from UN weapons inspectors regarding flights of U-2 spy planes for aerial imagery and surveillance.

(WHY

Mr Blix, who is charged with overseeing the elimination of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons and long-range missiles, was accompanied by Mohamed ElBaradei, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Mr ElBaradei said that his inspectors had found no evidence that Iraq had revived its weapons programme after it was destroyed following the Gulf War.

But he said that inspectors needed more time to provide "credible assurance" that Iraq has no nuclear weapons programme.

He also urged Iraq to provide more information about the pre-1991 weapons programme.

John Negroponte, the United States ambassador to the UN, said that nothing Mr Blix and Mr ElBaradei had said indicated that Iraq had disarmed. He said: "Iraq is back to business as usual."

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BLIX, SADDAM, NOT BUSH
NOT THE CIA
BLIX CHANGING THIS AT A LATER DATE MAKE YOU AND BLIX WHAT?

I don't know why you keep repeating the same thing over again, Blix didn't provide justification for the invasion of Iraq, neither did the UN.

No one is doubting that Saddam was a 'bad guy', did you have another point to make?

But he said that inspectors needed more time to provide "credible assurance" that Iraq has no nuclear weapons programme.

But Bush refused to let them finish their UN mandate and invaded unilaterally and illegally. Just one of many points you include in your posts but refuse to accept.

 

[Nic_Driver]

No lefty talking point, just stone cold fact.

The fabled WMDs did not exist, or the admin would have told God, angels, and all witnesses.

No such release was ever made.

Defense.gov News Article: Munitions Found in Iraq Meet WMD Criteria, Official Says
WHAT DO YOU CALL THIS?
THIS IS FROM THE DOD WHILE GWB WAS THE PRESIDENT IN 2006
THIS WAS MADE IN THE SENATE, NOT THE EMPRE STATE BUILDING

Another example of misinformation from the apologists. The threat Bush used was from nuclear weapons and that's the lie he used to justify invasion, not some mustard gas that Blix was in the process of finding when Bush stopped him from his UN mandated job to illegally invade.

 

[Nic_Driver]

How many times have the actual facts been posted? How many times do you bobble-head lefties need to see the same thing before it sinks in?

You are just repeating the talking points over and over and over and over and over...

They have to go ask their supervisors what to say, Unkotare, in order to make the facts go away. Sometimes it used to make me want to hurl, but I'm now accustomed to the obfuscating and higher and higher demands that are made to marginalize the poisons that were found in Iraq and the accompanying paperwork found in Saddam's palace basement on instructions of where to disburse the enhanced uranium and nuclear bomb making accoutrements he had received from that German entrepreneur that was on the news 5 or 6 years ago for sending bad things to bad people all over the world--with one agenda, to use them against the USA.

That's an odd reality you live in.

 

[Rinata]

Yes there were.

No, there were not. How many people have to say it before it penetrates thick heads like yours?? This is one of the better articles I saved on the topic.

George Tenet briefed Bush on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction. Bush totally ignored it and Tenet never mentioned it again.

Secretary of State Powell, in preparation for his presentation of evidence of Saddam's WMD to the United Nations Security Council on Feb. 5, 2003, spent days at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., and had Tenet sit directly behind him as a sign of credibility. But Tenet, according to the sources, never told Powell about existing intelligence that there were no WMD's, and Powell's speech was later revealed to be a series of falsehoods.

Ring a bell???

Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction - Iraq war - Salon.com

Speaking of bell ringing
this is report is about 10 weeks prior to our invasion Your post is not even 1/2 true
These items have never been found
it is the smoking gun
Saddam claimed this stuff existed, not the UN, not GWB

Blix: weapons and anthrax still unaccounted for - Telegraph
Of the declaration of weapons made by Iraq under UN resolution 1441, he said: "Regrettably, the 12,000-page declaration does not seem to contain any new material."

Mr Blix said the declaration had failed to account for 6,500 chemical warfare bombs, adding that 12 empty chemical warheads recently found in a bunker south of Baghdad "could be the tip of the iceberg".

Iraq had also failed to prove it had destroyed all of its anthrax, Mr Blix said. There were "strong indications" that it had produced more than it had admitted.

He recalled that Iraq had declared that it produced 8,500 litres of anthrax and unilaterally destroyed the stock in the summer of 1991. But there was "no convincing evidence of destruction," he said.

He added that Iraq had not fully accounted for stocks of precursor chemicals used to make VX nerve gas. Baghdad had also lied about how close it had come to weaponising the gas in the late 1980s.

What??? We invaded Iraq in March of 2003. The article is from September of 2007.