You think huffpo is a reliable source?rainbow wrote:You still believe this drivel.Seth wrote:
Er, you still don't get it. At the time Saddam was doing everything in his power to convince the rest of the world that he WAS a direct threat not just to his neighbors but to everyone on the planet. He had sophisticated operations in place during the interregnum to provide what turned out to be false intelligence information to the Coalition that he was engaged in biological, chemical and nuclear weapons development and production, which included building vehicles specifically intended to look like mobile bio-war labs from space-based satellite observation, among many other fictional and actual WMD violations.
The US made up this "Intelligence" to justify war.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan- ... 24620.html
The whole article is a giant "meh" concoction of quote mining, editorializing and inferential suggestions of inaccuracy that do not in fact prove that anything Powell said was a deliberate lie.
As for the Iraqis not having any WMDs when we got there, well, we gave them 12 years to conceal them and most of them were shipped to Syria in a series of truck convoys and 747 flights into Syria disguised as earthquake relief supplies. This came directly from the mouth of Saddam's Air Marshal who witnessed the movements and who, by the way, I personally heard relate these facts during an interview I attended as a journalist. I'll believe a direct eyewitness to some huffpo pundit and his editorial bias. There is absolutely no question that Saddam had Sarin, or that he used it on the Kurds in the mid eighties. There is serious question as to whether he disposed of it long before the Kuwait invasion, as this pundit claims, and the eyewitness testimony of an actual senior military participant in the movement of Sarin munitions out of Iraq immediately prior to the 2nd invasion is far more compelling and convincing.
So, yes, I believe the "drivel" because it's the truth.
