Sarin and mustard gas found in Iraq

Draginol

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Sarin and mustard gas found in Iraq

"WMDs" begin to turn up

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Just for the record - stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons were never the principle reason for the coalition to remove Saddam from power.

But the lack of these stockpiles is something those who have opposed the war have, in my view, cynically jumped onto to argue that the war was unjustified (as if those who were in favor of removing Saddam were losing sleep over mustard gas).

Anyway, they are apparently starting to find some of this stuff. For whatever it's worth.

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I seriously doubt the validity of such claims at this point in time. If there were things to find, they would have found them already. I think your first response was the most accurate, a political election. Pay particular attention this fall as I am certain the threat level will be elevated once again in the sept-oct months. Loss in polls = crisis event.

Just because a stockpile of weapons has not been found yet, does not mean they don't exist. Iraq is a big place, and there are many possibilities of what happened to the weapons. Let's not forget that just as many democrats said Iraq had WMD's as Bush did. The only difference is the democrats seem to forget that now.

It's funny how the media always reported that no WMD's have been found, now they say "no stockpiles of WMD have been found".

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Draginol

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I'm still looking for a piece to my printer from our last move. It's somewhere in our house, but I can't find it -- even after a year. That doesn't mean it didn't exist.

But that's besides the point. We didn't go into Iraq because Saddam had mustard gas or Sarin. We went in there because in the post 9/11 world, dangerous enemies in that part of the world couldn't be tolerated. Dangerous enemies who had tried to murder the former President of the US. Dangerous enemies who regularly shot at our planes. Dangerous enemies who funded terrorists in the west bank. Dangerous enemies who bided their time for the "international community" to soften and end sanctions so that he could move forward with the WMD *programs* he demonstratably had in place.

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is a big place, and there are many possibilities of what happened to the weapons.

No matter what happened to the weapons, *if* there was a stockpile, there had to have been at least hundreds, probably thousands, of people who knew about it. Scientists, engineers, military officers, government officials, etc. Imagining that not one of those people would have come forward by now to collect our reward is simply not believable to me.

We went in there because...

There are many reasons we went. Lots of hawks disagreed with each other. Some arguments for war were purely humanitarian, some were legalistic, some were out to spread democracy. Some hawks wanted disarmament, others wanted regime change. There's no one true motivation but rather a bunch of mutually reinforcing reasons. And WMD are irrelevant to some arguments and relevant to others.

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Draginol, give me more credit than this. I know perfectly well Bush never said he would remove troops--quite the contrary. My reference to Drudge was that it was indeed stuck on the main feature list for an excruciatingly longtime. However, I notice that now the list is frequently rotated. I've also stated many times in my blogs that I do not oppose the war, only the manner in which it was carried out.

I commented in WiseFawn's article on points that I too had lost several hundred points[user list] but that I was confident Wardell had nothing to do with it. Even though today I lost 150 points, I'm afraid, I suspect Kharma.

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