Powell, 2001: He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors. So in effect, our policies have strengthened the security of the neighbors of Iraq…

There’s no question that they have some stockpiles of some of these sorts of weapons still under their control, but they have not been able to break out, they have not been able to come out with the capacity to deliver these kinds of systems or to actually have these kinds of systems that is much beyond where they were 10 years ago.

Oh, and Powell stated that the sanctions had been reconfigured in order to continue to contain Saddam.

thememoryhole.org/war/powell-no-wmd.htm

pax Says: Is Cheney protected by the secret service after he leaves office?

Yes.

Daddy-O sez: Not too sure about that. I read a good article in The New Yorker about Al and Tipper Gore a few years ago; the Secret Service were hardly ever to be found. I’m pretty sure that Secret Service protection for life only applies to Presidents.

Until they kill an ex- or sitting Vice President. Perhaps a precedent needs to be set?

No, Mr. Cheney, the chlorine Hussein kept under his kitchen sink doesn’t qualify as “capability” to produce WMD.

Just admit you were wrong already…

In addition to putting ANY country who followed this same policy in jeopardy of being condemned, or attacked, by the rest of the world it is simply WRONG.

Using this moronic logic, ANY country in the world could simply justify aggression by saying that they “thought” they might be attacked. No proof of that would ever be necessary.

At the same time, both the Republicans AND the DEMOCRATS should have been held responsible for never holding the President responsible for this.

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shoeless Says:

CHENEY: …he had the basic feed stock.

Feed stock? Did Saddam Hussein possess Cattle of Mass Defecation?

December 16th, 2008 at 11:27 am
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Don’t underestimate the destructive potential of cows.

That’s true. Dave Barry has documented several cases of exploding cows. Saddam Hussein could have straped them to his unmanned aerial vehicles and dropped them on unsuspecting farmers in Iowa.

Enough already!!

I can hear him now responding to concerns that the truth of Iraq’s impotence might come out: “So?”

Yes. But I don;t think he’ll be followed around by an ambulance all the time as well, unless he pays for it himself.

RoStupidity: After all, HE GAVE ‘EM TO SADDAM BACK IN THE 80’s… ALONG W/ VON RUMSFELD’S HELPING HAND. Talk about hypocrits.

In my research I found that actually collectively several nations basically sold Hussein an off-the-shelf WMD ‘kit’–from processing equipment for nerve gas precursors, the chemicals themselves, dedicated ‘delivery systems’ etc.
The US, Israel, the UK, China, Russia and Germany were all involved to one degree or another, either as government policy or with a nod and a wink to private companies to make a profit and by quietly “doing business”, assist in a proxy war against oil-rich Iran.

Apart from using the idea of WMD’s as a public excuse for what was a predetermined decision to invade and occupy Iraq, it was the very fact of having supplied Iraq with WMD’S that lent the claims some credence.

The really awkward bit was the argument that Hussein was a ‘monster’ because he’d used chemical weapons “on his own people’ so it was important to also suggest he;d use them on other nations too—never mind the fact that the US didn;t complain about using those same weapons on Iranians, nor were there any complaints when he did use them on mostly the Kurds later on.

The ‘intelligence’ that was “to blame” for the failure to find WMD was specifically selected by the Bush administration precisely to support their public claims, at the exclusion of intelligence that undermined their claims.

Rove’s response now, is to blame the CIA, thereby admitting that the invasion of Iraq was a “mistake”–but according to him an “honest” one.

Bush and Cheney however, after insisting on the veracity of their intelligence information as providing incontrovertible justification for the invasion of Iraq, now say that their ‘evidence’ was irrelevant—which is, remarkably, the truth.

They now admit no “mistake” whatsoever ( even though they have blamed the CIA as the source for their faulty intelligence even though it was entirely their own creation). So somehow in their twisted world in undermining their own rationales for war their actions are even more justifiable now than they were then! Because they say so!

cheney doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He never has, or else Saddam et al would be our friends to this day, fighting Iranians along our side.