Fred Thompson: Iraq had WMDs prior to invasion.
Fred Thompson: Iraq had WMDs prior to invasion.
Former Sen. Fred Thompson, speaking in Iowa today, declared that Iraq did indeed have WMDs prior to the U.S. invasion. The Des Moines Register reports:
[Thompson] was certain former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction prior to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, a point of contention in the 4.5 years since the war began.
“We can’t forget the fact that although at a particular point in time we never found any WMD down there, he clearly had had WMD. He clearly had had the beginnings of a nuclear program,” the former Tennessee senator told an audience of about 60 at a Newton cafe.
Apparently, Thompson is as delusional as President Bush, who privately insisted through April 2006 that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction. The Iraq Survey Group conclusively proved otherwise.
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Is this the Republican swan song? Welcome to the bottom of the toilet after the flush Fred.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:45 pmdid his position as a fictional district attorney give him access to this information!?
October 1st, 2007 at 2:45 pmWell… strictly speaking, he did… back in the 90’s. Before the UN sanctions came into being and did their job.
So, he’s not lying or really delusional… he’s just conveniently omitting ten years from history.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:46 pm* cue music from Law and Order
Hey Fred Shut the …………………………….
October 1st, 2007 at 2:47 pm08′ election. Vote for a Democrat, you might get something good, you might get something bad. Vote for a Republican you get 4 more years of George Bush. Meaning you can take your chances or bet on a sure thing.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:47 pmbong bong
October 1st, 2007 at 2:50 pmYes, Iraq had WMD. Unfortunately, the US military (or should I say the “coalition forces”) was incapable of defeating Saddam’s magic invisibility spell.
I wonder if Fred thinks Iraq had something to do with 9/11 as well?
October 1st, 2007 at 2:51 pmWhy is this idiot even allowed to speak.
More importantly, why is TNT still running his episodes of L&O where this moron has a platform to spout his idiocy without a response from the opposition
October 1st, 2007 at 2:52 pm“We can’t forget the fact that although at a particular point in time we never found any WMD down there, he clearly had had WMD.”
He said this right before he lost his teeth.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:52 pmFred is reading from a script written by the White House . Fred hasn’t given much thought about what’s been happening in the United States for the past
6 1/2 years. Fred was busy doing his TV show and working for the Lobbyist to get the big bucks. Fred
will next say it was Bil Clinton who invaded Iraq
in 2001 and not George Bush. Fred thinks George
Bush can in office and got a balance budge then Clinton spent the money and now Bush has to
clean up the mess. Fred thinks no soldiers have
been killed during the Bush/Cheney invasion and
we’re loved around the world.
Fred will drop out when he gets enough money and laugh at all the free money he has for his to keep
his young wife and little kids plus that Viagra he
needs . He looks bad maybe he’s using to much
Viagra and it’s effecting his health.
Bush’s base the Christian Religious Values people
October 1st, 2007 at 2:53 pmbelieve the lies that God wanted Bush in office only to
to find out it was Satan who wanted him in. Now
you notice as the same group call to GOD for help
He’s not listening. Like Judas the Republicans took
the 30 pieces of sliver and you know the rest of the
story.
W-War
M-Mongering
D-Disorder
WMD Fever Catch It!!
Idiot
RIP
October 1st, 2007 at 2:55 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
Yes, once upon a time before the invasion, Saddam did have WMD’s.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:57 pmDonald Rumsfeld gave them to him.
Um, Terri Schi…..who??
WHAT A COMPLETE MORON!!!
October 1st, 2007 at 2:59 pmBelieve me, I *hate* defending Fred of Hollywood but he’s right. Iraq *did* have WMD, thanks to the able assistance of the US, and used them on the Iraqi Kurds and on the Iranians. He also had, according to the IAEA, an embryonic nuclear weapons program but it had been abandoned by around 1998.
What Thompson is saying is literally true but doubtless was intended to convey the impression that Iraq had such weapons at the time Bush was talking about “smoking guns”. That’s clearly not the case and even a dim bulb like Thompson knows it.
jb
October 1st, 2007 at 3:01 pmI’m glad Grandpa Freddie is showing everyone what a crackpot he is. Read the crap he posted at Irrational Review, it’s a gold mine of his right wing extremism.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:02 pmHe might think he’s getting away with crap like this in front of 60 Tennessee hillbillies, but there’s these pesky internets where insane statements like this will be broadcast for all to see that this moron hasn’t got a clue.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:04 pm“08′ election. Vote for a Democrat, you might get something good, you might get something bad. Vote for a Republican you get 4 more years of George Bush. Meaning you can take your chances or bet on a sure thing.”
Well, in the case of “Rudith”, something perhaps far worse. John Dean certainly thinks so.
jb
October 1st, 2007 at 3:04 pmsenile old man. he also once claimed on Law and Order that Iran-Contra was a liberal myth.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:08 pmI’m not an idiot, but I play one on TV.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:10 pmmmm…yeah, whatever. Next.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:15 pmthey sure did you dumb motherfu*ker! WE sold them too him… jesus fu*king christ, where in the hell do these idiots breed?
LOOK:
http://www.bhopal.net/otherbhopals/archives/saddam+rumsfeld.jpg
October 1st, 2007 at 3:16 pmWith respect to dim wit (at #8) and jb (at #16), no one seriously believes that Fred’s even referring to Saddam’s WMD stocks or production capabilities before 1995. In the quote that’s provided, Thompson is CLEARLY alluding to the WMD rationale that sparked the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:26 pmAnyone who chooses to refer to the verifiable WMDs of the past has to explain the very uncomfortable links between certain members of THIS administration (i.e., Cheney and Rumsfeld) with Saddam’s regime when Saddam was in possession of those WMDs since Saddam didn’t have the “ingredients” to make WMDs. Of course, it would also have to expose St Ronnie’s connections to Saddam’s WMDs as well, and the neocons have built up his reputation (and their being the legitimate heirs to the Reagan political scene) that any such exposure would cause the neocons to self-destruct. (And when was the last time that any group survived after destroying the myths they’d built up around their leader?)
Perhaps he’s referring to Iraq prior to the first Gulf War (dumb like a fox)?
October 1st, 2007 at 3:34 pmThere’s something about an Aqua Velva man.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:34 pmWow, Fred, that is whacko-ville there.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:39 pmI know, I know….the aliens came down and took them all away before the weapons inspectors got there.
That a fool Thompson is. He really thinks that line is going to get him the support of some of the 67% of the people in this country who will vote for “any Democrat”? I don’t think so!
October 1st, 2007 at 3:44 pmGood God. And to think there were people on the left who were scared of this boob entering the race. And the trolls were all salivating at the thought of sniffing his man-musk. Freddy, it’s not too late to get your day job back.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:51 pmWell, gee gosh wiz.
There must be four hillbillies in Tennessee that weren’t going to vote for Fred before that now are convinced he’s the one they should now vote for.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:55 pmThis guy is 4 years behind. He is still holding tight on the WMDS and Saddam story as a factual one,thinking that’s his ticket to the White House…
October 1st, 2007 at 3:58 pmThis guy need to wake up and start reading…there is more in this world than ‘Law & Order’,and Saddam’s WMDS dead story.
Fred Thompson is simply stupid.
October 1st, 2007 at 4:16 pmHis colleagues have said he is lazy.
So, a stupid and lazy candidate — that’s the ticket!
Get thy Fred to thy nursing home. Why is Grandpa Fred still in the race? He lost me at a hello when he threw his name in the hat for President. He is beyond laughable.
October 1st, 2007 at 4:41 pm“Fred … before you go on, just remember, ‘Tell ‘em what they want to hear…’ That’s how to get nominanted…”
Cheers,
October 1st, 2007 at 5:05 pmAnd I had a bank account full money before I brought my new car Thompson. But guess what? my account is empty now just like Iraq didn’t have WMD’s.
October 1st, 2007 at 5:10 pmObviously, Iraq had WMDs prior to our invasion. Dead Kurds and Iranians provide ample proof.
October 1st, 2007 at 5:14 pmThe question should be…did Iraq have WMDs on Sept 11 . If not, then they couldn’t have secretly given them to terrorists….and therefore presented NO IMMINENT THREAT to America, as the Bush Administration claimed.
No kidding they had WMD prior to the invasion… But how prior? Very prior, like the early 90’s or late 80’s.. After the US gave them to Saddam.
October 1st, 2007 at 6:00 pmWhere’s the Vaudeville Hook to yank Grandpa Thompson off the stage and put him out of his misery?
Shouldn’t we have automatic elimination for any presidential candidate who believes the worn-out nonsense that Saddam Hussein had WMD in 2002 & 2003?
October 1st, 2007 at 6:16 pmKeep in mind that Bill Clinton and his administration also claimed Saddam had WMD prior to the invasion. The pussy Podesta must have forgotten that.
October 1st, 2007 at 6:19 pmI heard that James Dobson and the Christian right just pulled the plug on Rudy Giulianni…they won’t support him. Theyre talking 3rd party. There hope’s for Thompson are fading fast. America is tired of Presidents who don’t know what’s going on.
October 1st, 2007 at 6:20 pmLook who else said Iraq had WMD and was a threat to the U.S.
http://www.usembassy.it/file2001_01/alia/a1010801.htm
October 1st, 2007 at 6:22 pmhttp://www.usembassy.it/file2001_01/alia/a1011102.htm
Bill Clinton and his administration also claimed Saddam had WMD prior to the invasion
No one but Saddam and Scott Ritter really KNEW whether Iraq had WMDs. That’s what Hans Blix was for. Too bad Bush rushed to Invade before Blix could do his job.
October 1st, 2007 at 6:25 pmGood enough for TV, maybe, retard.
October 1st, 2007 at 7:29 pmThe Thompson fantasy begins …WMD’s in Iraq….
The right wing side of the republican party is having a heckuva time with Rudy G with the Right with Christian Base….
Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 1st, 2007 at 7:35 pmI hate to say it but Thompson is going to be the next Commander in Cheif.
October 1st, 2007 at 8:32 pmYeah, Thompson is technically correct.
Hussein had WMD prior to the invasion.
About a decade prior to the invasion, that is.
What a twit. I will never be able to watch re-runs of Law And Order the same way anymore.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:43 amFred is a smart man … or at least he plays one on TV. And he did serve as minority counsel during the Watergate investigation so he knows a thing or two about a conspiracy.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:21 amFred’s Saddam WMD Conspiracy
This is NOT the first time he has said this. Last month he uttered a much more egregious gaffe that went unreported. If it resurfaces it will also refute his attempts to backtrack from what he said in Iowa this week. The full story, including the original quote is at
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:12 pmhttp://wecouldbefamous.blogspot.com