Iraqi WMDs revisited

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Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

For all I know, these 2 guys are paid CIA stooges, puting on a nice show to excuse US blunders. Fact of the matter is, however, they are being shunned for the most part. No one is listening

That could be because the issue to most of us, with thousands of civilian lives on the line who's only crime would be having been born in Iraq, not whether or not Iraq possessed WMD at some point in time (we know there were some there at some point), or whether they possessed unmanned model airplanes or a couple mustard gas shells, the issue was did Iraq actually pose a threat to the US or its allies? That was the bill of goods that Bush, Blair, Cheney, Rice, and Powell were pushing daily for 6 months: the talk of "mushroom clouds", of "thousands of litres of sarin gas", etc, etc. That was the issue that people who supported the war rallied around (the other reasons came later). Its been 3 years now and no credible evidence of these kinds of weapons (let alone the weapons themselves) has surfaced.

People have woken up to the reality that Iraq has been turned into hell on earth for the people who have to be there (both US troops as well as the Iraqis themselves), that there is no end in sight, and that the bill of goods they were sold was a false one. I don't think anyone cares anymore what a couple of Iraqi stooges have to say (look at what believing Ahmed Chalabi led to). As GW Bush once said: "Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. But fool me twice... can't get fooled again!"