June 01, 2003
#519 - Can't Find WMD? Just Lower the Standard!

From yesterday's Washington Post, "Bush Remarks Confirm Shift in Justifying War":

"We found the weapons of mass destruction," Bush asserted in the Thursday interview, released Friday. "We found biological laboratories. You remember when Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said, Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons. They're illegal. They're against the United Nations resolutions, and we've so far discovered two. And we'll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong. We found them."

Bush's assertion, one of many recent administration statements shifting focus from Iraq's weapons to Iraq's weapons programs, indicated the president would consider its accusations justified by the discovery of equipment that potentially could be used to produce weapons. But the original charges against Iraq, presented to the United Nations and the American public, were explicitly about the weapons themselves.

Comments

Why is this even a question? We know he had them, you're just making a big deal out of the fact that we didn't find them.

NEWSFLASH, the WMD's went to Syria.

Why does it matter if we find them when we know he had them?

Posted by: Reed on June 9, 2003 01:16 AM

If we really KNOW that the weapons went to Syria, then WHY is it that we haven't been looking there, hmmmmmmm?

Posted by: Matt on June 10, 2003 10:50 AM

Reed: The cops KNOW you have a huge stash of cocaine at your house, thanks to unconfirmed reports that, as matters of national security, cannot be shared with you or any of your friends. Thus, when the cops bust your door down and drag you off to prison, it won't matter if they don't find ANY cocaine, much less a huge stash, since they KNEW you had it. Right?

Posted by: Sam on July 23, 2003 06:52 AM

Just for the people in the USA that don't think that we did the right thing liberating the people of Iraq...we need to pull our troops out of there and take Saddam Hussen back over there and let him go.

Posted by: Jimmy Finger on February 10, 2004 04:36 PM