I thought Iraq didn't have any WMD

[vienna]

So our postwar justification is now down to residual material in a pair of bunkers that were destroyed beyond futher use twenty years ago. Okay.

My question is why we didn't do anything to help clean those up while we were there all this time? It sounds like an environmental disaster waiting to happen. Seems to me that it would be the decent thing to do in both nation building and winning the hearts and minds of the people.

Agreed on both points. To even imply that previously secured remnants justifies the conduct of the Iraq action is straw grasping in the desperate extreme by Bush apologist. The American people were lied to and our military servicemen have paid the price...

As for cleaning up, that is a very good question. In all the Bush years in Iraq and in the Obama years it does appear there was "no rush" to neutarlize what, as Takeda points out, is a potential environmental disaster. Particularly given the Bush administration's fervent frenzy about AMDs and the possibility of them falling into the wrong hands, it is indeed curious the AMD remnants were not destroyed/neutralized as a top priority. Also, why is the UK taking point on the disposal? It seems the US would bee the more likely entity to take the lead...

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[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by vienna

. Also, why is the UK taking point on the disposal? It seems the US would bee the more likely entity to take the lead...

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Probably because we were the first to use WMDs in modern(ish) warfare, and that was against Iraqis.

Or because we sold them to them in the first place, when they were good guys against Iran.

[August]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

Probably because we were the first to use WMDs in modern(ish) warfare, and that was against Iraqis.

Or because we sold them to them in the first place, when they were good guys against Iran.

What WMD's did we use against the Iraqis?

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by August

What WMD's did we use against the Iraqis?

I suppose you could turn that argument around and ask what WMDs Iraqis used against us/US.

And again, I'm not disputing the fact that Saddam had and used WMDs on his own people before. Just that there's 0 evidence of that being anywhere near the year 2003.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by August

What WMD's did we use against the Iraqis?

I was referring to us (Brits) dropping gas on Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) 90 years ago.

I guess that was all just a lie?

Still trying to peddle out the same old rubbish because even after all these years you just can't accept your being very publicly suckered.

The ayatollahs send you thier gratitude from the theocracy in Iran and its clients in Iraq, keep believing in the rubbish that has been thoroughly trashed repeatedly for the entirety of this century

if you have to scour any little news headline after a 10 year war to somehow make up a reason for it...then it's probably safe to say it was a pointless war

It wasn't pointless for some of the nuts in the middle east, for them it was the perfect war.
But for anyone else it was pointless, or even worse, it was thoroughly counter productive, harmful and wasteful.
Some could even say it was treasonous as after all the WMD rubbish some people swallowed was being fed from Tehran so the people who swallowed that crap were providing aid and comfort to the enemy.