Author Topic: No WMD, was war worth it? (Read 2163 times)

Arfann · « **Reply #1 on:** June 11, 2003, 07:28:23 AM »

Hey! If there's gonna be thousands of dead Iraqis we gonna make 'em dead ourselves! That's what being the only super power is all about! We gonna make 'em free to elect their own leaders! (as long as it's who we want. Kinda like Florida) So who's next? Iran? Korea? Hey, we're on a roll! Let's not stop now!

Ripsnort · « **Reply #2 on:** June 11, 2003, 07:44:58 AM »

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Originally posted by Arfann
Hey, we're on a roll! Let's not stop now!

Yeah baby! Preach it on! I'd like to thank Hollywood and the left for inspiring such thoughts as yours for the generations to come! Lets ROLL! (Anxiously awaiting Terminator 3!)

Eagler · « **Reply #3 on:** June 11, 2003, 07:53:37 AM »

the dumbacrats are prayin we don't find wmds

God have mercy on the dead, both sides - it was worth it imo

its message to the arab world alone not to mention the freedom it gave to the iraq ppl

still confident wmds will be found

but I'm sure whatever is found will not be enough for those crying about not finding them to date

Maniac · « **Reply #4 on:** June 11, 2003, 07:56:32 AM »

Curval · « **Reply #5 on:** June 11, 2003, 08:26:11 AM »

Sure the war was worth it...we all know Sadaam was a maniac.

BUT...I have to say that I do feel duped. I went on blind faith that there were WMD and fully supported the US action.

Now I just don't trust GWB. If he went to war to "get Sadaam" fine, but he went to war on the WMD "ticket". He lost credibilty in my mind by doing so.

I'm disappointed.

Toad · « **Reply #6 on:** June 11, 2003, 08:33:12 AM »

You are most likely suffering from "premature disappointmentulation".

Nifty · « **Reply #7 on:** June 11, 2003, 08:35:06 AM »

doesn't the end justify the means, Curval? According to Rip and Eagler it sure does. It doesn't matter than the "intelligence" the Bush Administration was wrong (for whatever reason) it just matters that a despot is out of power and a people freed... until they "elect" a theocracy and that sect of Islam persecutes the other sects. Let's hope that's not the case though.

Point is, I agree with Curval. War was definitely worth it in terms of liberation of Iraq, but the pretense for the war (Iraq has WMD and is a clear and present danger to the USA) seems fabricated by the Bush administration at the moment.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #8 on:** June 11, 2003, 08:47:27 AM »

I feel the administration was duped by the CIA intelligence, but I suspect the future may prove me wrong...I still think they've found enough evidence that proves the regrime destroyed many of them(or moved them to adjacent friendly countries like Syria) and purposely played stubborn to achieve their goal, humiliation of the West.

Curval · « **Reply #9 on:** June 11, 2003, 08:56:09 AM »

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Originally posted by Toad
You are most likely suffering from "premature disappointmentulation".

I REALLY hope so Toad..honestly.

LePaul · « **Reply #10 on:** June 11, 2003, 08:58:25 AM »

I think they will find some WMDs but not to the scale the intelligence has proclaimed.

They did discover many weapons they were not suppose to have...I mean during the war, we had discoveries of this and that...but a few months later, everyone seems to have forgotten that. They don't want the small clues, just one big smoking gun. And I think Saddam was smarter than that to have one available.

Between what they hid and we blew up, it'll be a difficult search

But its all politics now. Under the Clinton Administration, the Democrats wanted us in there. Under a Republican one, they'll stick their foot out and trip up Bush any way they can. From TAx Cuts to Appointing Judges...its a game of prettythanghole to them. Anything they can do to derail Bush's popularity, they'll do it.

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #11 on:** June 11, 2003, 09:06:57 AM »

We allready found mobile Chemical labs in camuflaged military trucks, just like Powelll said Iraq illagally possesed. Frankly Iraq told the UN they had nothing while under direct threat of invasion, they lied they had stuff and we invaded. Thats all the legal justficiation we needed.

The rational and moral justifications and spacific situational conditions for deposing the saddam regime are as endless as they are obvious.

Seeker · « **Reply #12 on:** June 11, 2003, 09:07:01 AM »

Was the war worth it?

I'm not sure it was for Britain. Without WOMD; it's quite likely Blair will be ousted, and frankly, I think that's a net loss for the UK

ra · « **Reply #13 on:** June 11, 2003, 09:14:32 AM »

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I think they will find some WMDs but not to the scale the intelligence has proclaimed.

When it comes to WMD, scale is not that important. A pocketful of WMD, properly deployed, can wipe out thousands of people.

If Iraq has no WMD whatsoever, the war was still justified by the threat of WMD. The fact is, Iraq had lots of WMD when it agreed to the cease-fire of the first war. Then Hussein spent 11 years playing cat-and-mouse with UN inspectors, making sure it was impossible to know for sure what the status of his WMD's were. After 9/11 that stopped being cute. So he ended up getting his butt kicked.

The axis of weasels doesn't care about cease-fires or 9/11, they just care about some bogus bureaucratic world order, where the US yields to the votes of countries like Russia and China, even in matters of its own defense.

Anyway, it is still too early to say for sure whether there are any WMD to be found in Iraq. If Hussein had them he did not want them to be easily found. If he didn't have them he had 11 years to meet the UN inspection criteria, and he blew it.

ra

Yeager · « **Reply #14 on:** June 11, 2003, 09:20:08 AM »

40 US Soldiers have been killed since the end of hostilities.