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No WMD - where they really there?
Now that the last combat troops have left Iraq the question still remains where are the so called WMD'S and did they really ever exist if they did where did Saddam Hussain hide them
After the 1st Gulf War did Iraq have WMD if so did they get rid of them to other rouge states or was Iraq telling the truth that there where no WMD'S and they only had a few of them and used them during the conflict
Are there Weapons inspectors in they country still looking for them
After the 1st Gulf War did Iraq have WMD if so did they get rid of them to other rouge states or was Iraq telling the truth that there where no WMD'S and they only had a few of them and used them during the conflict
Are there Weapons inspectors in they country still looking for them
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We knew they were there because we kept the receipts - but we forgot he had already used them
The powers that be knew there were no WMD's left in Iraq before we invaded. It was all bollocks along with the sexed up dodgy dossier and the 45 minute claim etc. etc.
Why would he give them to his enemy?
Saddam losing control of his WMD's? or Osama in Iran?
I was kinda joking but there a point -
The Western invasion of Iraq destabilised entire country and whatever weapons Saddam may controlled have in all likelihood fallen into the hands of the more subversive elements of the insurgency i.e Al-Qaeda
It's just for a while they tried to pretend they were allies so they could link Saddam with terrorism when in fact they were enemies.
Sadaam had WMD's during Gulf War 1 but they where destroyed by the UN Weapons Inspectors after that war. Its why they never found them in 2003!
Hans Blix is an idiot I'm afriad to say! He delibaaretly kept on throwing Bush and Blair a bone to their cause because IMO he felt he had to be balanced when he should have just reported the facts.
I clearly remember the aftermath of Gulf War 1, the main reason it was ended was because Iraq agreed for the WMD to be destroyed and it was on the news all the time, the inspectors going from site to site, having destroyed the weapons.
In any case, Iraq never used the WMD in the first Gulf war because Major and Bush senior told Iraq that if they used the WMD Chemical weapons, they would nuke Iraq!
But it was alright for poor Iran to be subjected to those very same weapons though wasn't it with the Wests support before all of this happenned?!!! :mad:
Everything else was a high stakes bluff to stop Saddam being deposed - whether by the army, Iranians or Americans.
That's a new one... blaming it on Hans... those who were following it closely at the time would struggle to put the blame there.
It was because he was being balanced for the sake of it that helped Blair and Bush try and justify their actions because of the ambiguity that Blix was raising and even now, 7 years after the war and not one WMD found and with thousands of inspections by both the UN and by Bush's own team, Blix at the Iraq Inquiry told them that he told Blair at the time that he thought Saddam still had WMD! :mad: This is why I say Blix was and is an idiot!!!!
Inspectors like Scot Ritter who where part of the original inspectors that destroyed the weapons said that Iraq didn't have WMD anymore but he was ignored or mocked at!!!
Can you believe how they took us, the TAX Paying PUBLIC for a RIDE, scared us into believing that we were going to be attacked in 45mins.
THEN, they used our TAX money to pay OUR Sons and Daughters to FIGHT their Personal War, so that THEY can control what is probably the Second Largest Oil Producer in the, only to SELL it back to, guess who, US.
my my my, when will we wake up.
I followed it extemely closely... this forum is the Iraq War forum renamed as Politics... every nuance was observed... by all means have a look at the posts from back then. Hans asked for more time but the US decided to invade to beat the weather...
Being "balanced for the sake of it"... utter rubbish.
They'd been issued to field commanders but they seemed to have little knowledge of how to arm them, however by the time we arrived half of them had gone AWOL and it was chaos.
Absolute garbage. The dossier "evidence" was drawn from a PhD thesis, the 45 minute claim was regarding short range missiles (not ones capable of hitting Cyprus as was claimed). It was pretty clear that evidence was being manipulated to give an excuse for war. Why do you think £1M people turned up to protest about it. Please keep your revisionism to yourself.
Ah, states that don't agree with Britain and America are "rogue", how interesting......
If you had followed it that closely you would recall that the inspectors were not there to "find" WMD. They were there to verify the evidence that they had been destroyed, but no evidence was provided because Saddam was playing games with the West and wanted to keep ip the pretence that he had them. While trying to delay any response from the West. Why is it that people want to continually try and rewrite history.