Originally posted by Gunslinger
Grasping at straws? Let me ask a rehtorical question......Why do you think I want this looked into?
I'll answer it, because I am a concerned citizen. We were sold on the war on various issues, one of them being Sadam's possesion of WMDs. He used them before, we know he had them at one point in time reguardless of how he got them, so where did they go.
That's the question, Where did they go? This guy is saying they went to syria, if he has proof of that should we just ignore him because we've been on the ground for over 2 years and havn't found much evidence?
I read a report a couple weeks ago that the US has litterally metric TONS of paperwork that they are still translating and analysing.
Grasping at straws, I think not.....
Sorry bout the pic of the Marines, it was a google image search and now I can't edit it.
Oh, well, you're a concerned citizen. Why didn't you say so in the first place? That changes everything.
Now answer this not so rhetorical question. Why isn't the Bush Admin hitting the airwaves non-stop if they knew about this guy. I mean, it's not like he just fell off the back of a truck somewhere. It's not like this would have been the first time he had a chance to tell this to people who could act upon it, now is it Grun?
You assume our intelligence agencies are halfway competent, right? Then where has this guy and his information been for the last couple of years?
I'm saying I find it very hard to believe that we haven't already talked with this guy and looked into his information.
I'm saying if it was credible, you'd have seen some kind of action, diplomatic or otherwise being put onto Syria by now.
I'm saying that if this guy and his info is the real deal, Bush would be saying it so much that we'd be hearing it in our sleep.
Now, I could be wrong, and our intelligence agencies might have blown it on this guy.
Then that would mean our intelligence agencies aren't up to the standard we, and more importantly, the President needs them to be, and that might just lead to a..............war based on faulty intelligence.
So next would be Syria, I guess. I mean our intelligence agencies should check this guy and his info out, and then should recommend military action because Syria is a direct threat to our security due to their possesion of Iraq's WMDs according to this ONE guy who shouldn't be an unknown player to anyone involved in the whole Iraq WMD hunt. This is like a shell game, except Americans get killed looking for the peanut that isn't there!
But then you'll say, Hey if it stops them from flying planes into buildings then it's ok if we make a mistake here or there and invade countries in error.
Except it's not OK, because we are supposed to stand for better ideals than the scum we are fighting.
***Edit--Let me add Grun, that IF this guy and his info is the real deal, then we should all have MORE questions about the quality of our Intel Agencies, not less questions. And if it is the real deal, then good for Bush, good for us, and good for the world, as long as we get them destroyed.