NO chemical weapons found in Irak and NOR nuclear weapons, but the result is a second hirochima in Irak killing people everyday, while bush is pretending success in Irak, u r not stupid americans but bush is. None of his goals was reached, even BIN LADEN is still free and sending videos from time to time, as a witness to the failure of bush government goals.\nI know that still there is americans blinded by bush lies, but they're some.\nIn the Country of liberty of speeking, WHY AMERICANS STILL NOT TALKING?
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We may be a free country, but we can't just barge into the White House, drag him out, & put someone else in.  People are still trying to figure out what to do about it, though.
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In addition to cantcu's succinct answer, which is the critical point, I would add that the so-called threat of WMDs in Iraq (which never existed) made bush feel like a macho lawman from the old west, while the prospect of WMDs in North Korea (which absolutely do exist and are flaunted regularly) makes the coward hide in his bunker. Why? China.\n\nIf the "good old USSR" (where ever did I get that phrase from? lol) still existed, bush would never have gone anywhere near Iraq, notwithstanding his desperate need to prove his manhood and avenge his daddy. Why? Because as China looks out for North Korea, so too did the USSR once look after Iraq. Like all such craven political leaders, bush and his aides correctly calculated that invading Iraq under the false pretext of a perceived "threat" of WMDs would not engender imminent attack by an actual nuclear power.\n\nWhat he completely miscalculated was that the Iraqi people would welcome force-fed "democracy," to say nothing of the endless campaign against imperialism led by assorted insurgents and outside forces (many of them terrorists who'd have never dared set foot inside Iraq while Saddam Hussein was still in charge). The fact the US already went through precisely the same insane scenario in Vietnam a few decades ago only makes his war crimes all the more treasonous and indefensible. Unbelievable....
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Who doesn't talk about the Holocaust ?? Iran will never use Nuclear power for peaceful purpose because its President is a Joker, trying to appease the clearics. The nuclear power is their plan not his. He's just become the president and the Nuclear ambitions are much older. The Islamic Terrorists have Killed More Iraqies than the American. Does it answer all your questions? The so called jehadis are actually traitors in American eyes. America trained them , Funded them did everything for them and they inturn have stabbed america in the back.
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to RLP and Mini me...Iraq didn't come over here and blow us up (nor will they ever)....As far as the question...I fail to have a glimmer of an idea as to why re pub's hold on to their blind faith in george bush (lower case letter's emphasized). he is a mad man and his staff are either smart crooks or inept peter principle recipients
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You know.... this whole WMD debate is really just flat silly.  We KNOW they had WMD's for two very obvous reasons.  \n\n1)  He used them to gas hundreds of Kurds in '88.  He killed hundred of people!!  It's not propaganda, it's not right wing rhetoric, it's not some strange fruit cakes unsubstantiated editorial..  It's a fact!!\n\n2)  The other reason we know, though a little less welcome in the media is that WE SOLD THEM TO IRAQ!!  Durring the Iran Iraq war, we backed Saddam.  Makes sense after Iran overran our embassy and held captive our diplomats back in '79 for us to back their oposition.  The enemy of our enemy is our friend kind of thing.  Just as we trained and equiped Afgani "freedom fighters" durring the soviet invation, we trained and equiped Iraq durring the Iran Iraq war.  We know they had WMD's then, because we have the reciepts.  It's a plain, unwelcome fact.  Made sense at the time, but there it is.  \n\nClinton may or may not have had data on WMD's in Iraq in '98, but I really don't see how it matters, they were there.  The WMD's are most likely either burried in the desert, or in Seria now.
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Decider made me laugh and cry at the same time.\n\nWASHINGTON — The United States has found 500 chemical weapons in Iraq since 2003, and more weapons of mass destruction are likely to be uncovered, two Republican lawmakers said Wednesday.\n\nApparently, the president thought it was a good idea to hide this information from us for 3 years?
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Naaa you all got it wrong, bin laden is just getting revenge to what the west did to his country and many more. E.G Africa, west stole all the jewells making a fortune and leaving africa to charity. Bush is a numskull.Bush has killed more in Iraq than pathetic Osama ever will. Saying lets go into iraq cos saddam holds W.m.d, then they never found it and are exporting  iraqs oil. no wonder america and the rest of the west are rich. dont forget one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter. if flying a plane into a building is evil. Think about all the thousand of people(and counting) who died in afghanistan, iraq and many more. Huh isnt that evil as well??? Killing is evil, whatever country or policy you bring...
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People seem to have forgotten how the Taliban and rebels in Afganistan whipped the butts of the Russians when they tried to capture Afganista. The United states helped the Afganis with intel and arms, and Russia still lost. Bin laden was involved then, we supported him and his fight against the Russians. Bush policies had nothing to do with 9/11, that was a result of failed policies and promises made by Carter and his administration. It just happens that Bush was on duty when Bin laden put his plan into action. It's all about oil. It has always been about oil. Chasing down zarqawi is more for the press and to show the people back home that progress is being made in Iraq. We don't know what is really going on off camera. Zarqawi was self appoined to lead al-quida in Iraq. There have been reports that binladen didn't like him pitting shiites against sunnis and killing other muslims. The question still remains, should we be in iraq? It doesn't matter now, we are there, we need to send more troops, clean up that place and  get out. Then send our Iraq troops to Afganistan, and clean house there also, then build that darn pipeline.
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Yes there have been numerous documents and tapes released by the government implementing Saddam's regime talking about where to take the WMD's and how to lie to the UN.  I don't know where to get ahold of those documents though, I heard it on Limbaugh's radio show, try calling him he would undoubtedly know.  When I was there we found numerous empty carriers for large warheads and plenty of chemical and biological weapons.  But WMD's are not the only reason for Iraq, him supporting and paying terrorists is just like having WMD's.  There are many anti-American HUGE paintings on buildings displaying the bombing of America and many had mushroom clouds.  I believe since we told Saddam we was coming he got them out.  The terrorist network over there is crazy.  If you have any other questions email me
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Mainly because people don't listen, don't remember that we didn't start this war-as in the War on Terror as a whole (Iraq had WMD's during the Iraq-Iran War and gassed the Kurds after the first Gulf War, Saddam was funding Hamas-President Bush said we were going after leaders that supported terrorism).
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Well the point I think is not so much that Bush actually knew there weren't WMD's, but that while not knowing there were WMD's, he authorized an invasion on the pretext that there were.  I totally agree that Bush could not have known whether or not there was WMD's - hence the need to allow weapons inspectors to do their job.  The major point of the anti-war movement is that war should not be started unless it is absolutely necessary: if the justification for war is the possession of WMD's and there are weapons inspectors currently in country searching for them, then jumping the gun is not justifiable, and is even less so when it turns out there were no WMD's.  \n\nAnother point of the anti-war movement is that the intelligence reports supporting the claim that Saddam had WMD's were not in fact so clear cut; now it has come out that much of the intelligence used to justify the war to the public and the world at large was faulty.  The claims of uranium purchases in Africa, the trailers of biological research, the ability to launch a WMD attack in 40 minutes; not only have these turned out to be false, but they were in fact not even supported by the data at the time.\n\nOf course political slogans tend to be simplistic.  The situation is not as simple as "bush lied people died."  But the fact remains that he invaded not only on a false pretext, but on a pretext which was then in the process of being investigated.  A leader has the obligation to not start a war unless it is deemed absolutely necessary.  You make a good point that there may have been an overzealous interpretation of data, not an outright motivation to lie, but the fact is that a leader who overzealously interprets data which leads to an unnecessary war is a very poor leader, if not an outright war criminal.\n\ndriveranderson: don't be silly now.  even the administration and the military are not using that as justification of the war.  why? because those shells contained gas which had been manufactured before 1991 and was degraded to such a state that it was unusable as a WMD.  And do you really want to justify a war on the grounds that a nation had 500 old shells with degraded gas which were unusable in combat?  If Bush had justified the war to the American people on the grounds that Saddam had 500 shells which had been manufactured 15+ years ago and were no longer threatening, what do you think the American people would have said?  I suggest you not cite WMD claims which even the military and the administration are steering clear of.  And try to watch something other than fox news too, it tends to rot the brain.\n\nthealligator414: yes, because the WMD's that the UN and Hans Blix failed to find were quickly found by American forces, thus validating Bush's preemptive invasion!  Maybe it has occurred to you that if we cite a reason to invade a country, we need to have a valid justification for believing that reason?
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ARE YOU INSANE???\n\nFirst, we MADE Saddam Hussein, if he was EVER a threat it is because WE CREATED HIM. Do YOU know why our government was so CONVINCED they would find WMD's (so named because our PRESIDENT cannot SAY the word NUCLEAR!)???? \n\nWHY???? \n\n\nBecause WE HAVE THE RECEIPTS!!!!!!\n\nSecond, you cannot BEGIN to compare Saddam Hussein to HITLER??? 6 MILLION people man... 6 MILLION in like 7 years or so.. MAX... You cannot begin compare GW BUSH to those people who put a stop to Hitler's madness... \n\nThat is just asinine!!! \n\nThousands of dead American SOLDIERS and Iraqis is NOT worth proving that the Bushes AREN'T WIMPS!! \n\nDO NOT kid yourself into thinking that any of this is ANYTHING ELSE!!!\n\nI will agree with you on one thing, The ENEMY may be ruthless.. but they were NOT OUR ENEMIES until WE MADE THEM SUCH!!!!\n\nLet us at least be honest and not continue to delude ourselves into thinking we are anything but imperialists with something to prove. \n\n\nIt is NOT WORTH THE LIVES OF OUR DAUGHTERS AND SONS!!!!
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But of course.  It's funny how last Monday the New York Times printed an article stating that Iraq was less than a year away from producing a NUCLEAR bomb.  LESS THAN 1 YEAR AWAY!  \n\nNo more question about weapons of mass destruction..\n\nPS The New York Times WOULD NEVER print anything to help George Bush. So for them to print this story must have HURT!\n\nExerpt from Times  \n\nAmong the dozens of documents in English were Iraqi reports written in the 1990s and in 2002 for United Nations inspectors in charge of making sure Iraq had abandoned its unconventional arms programs after the Persian Gulf war. Experts say that at the time, Mr. Hussein’s scientists were on the verge of building an atom bomb, as little as a year away.\n\nAS LITTLE AS A YEAR !!!   Sounds like a SMOKING GUN to me!
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you forgot to mention that he is ignoring Isreal who has nuclear power too!!!\n\nby  the way there isn`t any Arab country who has nuclear power\nIran isn`t arab & Bush claimed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction just to invade it for the oil\n\nhe is just showing off with his power to hide his weakness which was uncovered when 9/11 happened
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We have never sold WMDs or its' technology, so the ones Saddam had were not from America.\n\nIraq's arsenal of weapons of mass destruction was not captured by US forces who heroically brought down Saddam Hussein's regime three years ago this week. It vanished before they arrived.\nIsraeli intelligence reported before the US-led invasion that starting in late summer 2002 Saddam's WMD arsenal was shipped by truck convoy to Syria. Recently, documents seized from Iraq after the fall of the regime were released to the public. Those documents revealed that under the direct command of former Russian prime minister and KGB boss Yevgeny Primakov, Russian Spetnaz forces oversaw the transfer of Iraq's WMD to Syria ahead of the US-led invasion. These reports have been corroborated by Saddam's Air Vice Marshall General Georges Sada.\n\nSo rather than being destroyed or secured, Saddam's WMD arsenal was simply moved from one rogue regime with intimate ties to terror organizations to another rogue regime with intimate ties to terror organizations.\n\nOf course, American Media will NOT report this, it will prove Bush right, and then they would look stupid.\n\nMichael Moore, thanks:\nFriday, 23 June 2006 \nWhen News Lies \n\n\nWHEN NEWS LIES\nMedia Complicity and The Iraq War\n\n\nBy Danny Schechter, The News Dissector\n\n\n\nA new book from Danny Schechter offers an up to date indictment of the role media played in promoting and misreporting the war on Iraq. It is an analysis of how and why the media got it wrong that pinpoints the failures of journalism and the collusion of media companies with the Bush Administration. The author of EMBEDDED: Weapons of Mass Deception (Prometheus 2003), an account of the TV coverage of the US invasion, returns with a more comprehensive, updated and insider look at the media complicity that Schechter argues "made the war possible."\n\n\n\n"Most of the anti-war movement focused on the crimes of the Bush Administration ignoring the mainstream media, its far more effective accomplice," says former network producer Danny Schechter (ABC, CNN). "The government orchestrated the war while the media marketed it. You couldn't have one without the other."\n\n\n\nWHEN NEWS LIES includes the feature -length DVD of the prize-winning film WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception). The book will also include the complete script as well as a discussion of the challenges of exposing media with media with a documentary. It chronicles the media war fought alongside the military campaign and the struggle to stand up for truth. \n\nSource(s):\n\nGoogle it:\n\nSaddam, WMD, Spetsnaz\n\nhttp://www.wmdthefilm.com/mambo/index.ph...
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Iraq's arsenal of weapons of mass destruction was not captured by US forces who heroically brought down Saddam Hussein's regime three years ago this week. It vanished before they arrived.\nIsraeli intelligence reported before the US-led invasion that starting in late summer 2002 Saddam's WMD arsenal was shipped by truck convoy to Syria. Recently, documents seized from Iraq after the fall of the regime were released to the public. Those documents revealed that under the direct command of former Russian prime minister and KGB boss Yevgeny Primakov, Russian Spetnaz forces oversaw the transfer of Iraq's WMD to Syria ahead of the US-led invasion. These reports have been corroborated by Saddam's Air Vice Marshall General Georges Sada.\n\nSo rather than being destroyed or secured, Saddam's WMD arsenal was simply moved from one rogue regime with intimate ties to terror organizations to another rogue regime with intimate ties to terror organizations.\n\nOf course, American Media will NOT report this, it will prove Bush right, and then they would look stupid.\n\nMichael Moore, thanks:\nFriday, 23 June 2006 \nWhen News Lies \n\n\nWHEN NEWS LIES\nMedia Complicity and The Iraq War\n\n\nBy Danny Schechter, The News Dissector\n\n\n\nA new book from Danny Schechter offers an up to date indictment of the role media played in promoting and misreporting the war on Iraq. It is an analysis of how and why the media got it wrong that pinpoints the failures of journalism and the collusion of media companies with the Bush Administration. The author of EMBEDDED: Weapons of Mass Deception (Prometheus 2003), an account of the TV coverage of the US invasion, returns with a more comprehensive, updated and insider look at the media complicity that Schechter argues "made the war possible."\n\n\n\n"Most of the anti-war movement focused on the crimes of the Bush Administration ignoring the mainstream media, its far more effective accomplice," says former network producer Danny Schechter (ABC, CNN). "The government orchestrated the war while the media marketed it. You couldn't have one without the other."\n\n\n\nWHEN NEWS LIES includes the feature -length DVD of the prize-winning film WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception). The book will also include the complete script as well as a discussion of the challenges of exposing media with media with a documentary. It chronicles the media war fought alongside the military campaign and the struggle to stand up for truth.
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The Iraq war is a complete waste of time for the U.S.   I thought the objective was to catch Bin Laden and the terrorists after 9/11.  Apparently not.   Bin Laden still resides in Afghanistan or Pakistan, but certainly not in Iraq.\n\nBin Laden still runs free while we are left holding the bag to pay for nation rebuilding out of our own pockets.  While a noble thing, it's not the objective.  If we were all about creating democracy, we'd have invaded North Korea in the 50 years or so that it's been the most horrific dictatorship in the free world.  It was about protecting oil and going after Daddy's nemesis.\n\nMeanwhile, our poor troops patrol Iraq while lunatics take potshots at them, many on their 3RD tour of duty, ridiculous.  No, these aren't "insurgents", these are Iraqi's who don't want us there, and will never give in since they have lost power and are a minority.  Would you give up your guns if you knew you would be killed and/or put down into the dregs of society?  We are trying to "fix" a country that has thousands of years of issues that we cannot possibly be successful in curing.\n\nEven Bush's daddy knew Iraq should not have been occupied. Read it for yourself, like Karnac, Bush Sr. predicted what would happen if we invaded.  Jr. fell into the trap.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3019.htm\nThis is the time article extracted from Bush/Scowcroft book.\n\nSo there you have it, a useless war so far from the objective of catching the terrorists it might as well be in the wrong country, uh, oh yeah, it is.  I wonder how the families of the victims of 9/11 like Dubya?  \n\n"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." - GW Bush, 9/13/01\n\nReal important.  Yeah, ok.