Could this happen in the USA?

comart45 Wrote:

Sure it has, that's why the republicans got voted out of office... What do you mean it already happened - that's nonsense.

racer76 Wrote:

So did everyone else, until we got there. Hell, seems like everybody made that mistake (including the UN inspectors).

schutnik Wrote:

Ok... well I know this is a biased web site - but here's a pretty decently put argument as to why everyone believed there were WMDs (prior to actually going there).

http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/08/26/where-is-the-common-sense-in-t/

I didn't read the rest of the page, only the original post, as I'd agree there's probably some propaganda following this post (though I didn't read it so I don't know if there's actually propaganda or just regular fair opinions). In any case, I don't see how anybody could have believed (at the time) that there weren't any WMDs.

schutnik Wrote:

That is not what we were hearing in Australia or what was on world news sites.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-03-02-un-wmd_x.htm

Posted 3/2/2004 1:33 AM
U.N.: Iraq had no WMD after 1994
By Bill Nichols, USA TODAY
UNITED NATIONS — A report from U.N. weapons inspectors to be released today says they now believe there were no weapons of mass destruction of any significance in Iraq after 1994, according to two U.N. diplomats who have seen the document.

The historical review of inspections in Iraq is the first outside study to confirm the recent conclusion by David Kay, the former U.S. chief inspector, that Iraq had no banned weapons before last year's U.S-led invasion. It also goes further than prewar U.N. reports, which said no weapons had been found but noted that Iraq had not fully accounted for weapons it was known to have had at the end of the Gulf War in 1991.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/03/21/iraq.weapons/

Monday, March 22, 2004 Posted: 1:34 AM EST (0634 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United Nations' top two weapons experts said Sunday that the invasion of Iraq a year ago was not justified by the evidence in hand at the time.

"I think it's clear that in March, when the invasion took place, the evidence that had been brought forward was rapidly falling apart," Hans Blix, who oversaw the agency's investigation into whether Iraq had chemical and biological weapons, said on CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/18/iraq/main537096.shtml

Inspectors Call U.S. Tips 'Garbage'
U.N. Sources Complain About Quality Of U.S. Intelligence On Iraq
Feb. 20, 2003

So frustrated have the inspectors become that one source has referred to the U.S. intelligence they've been getting as "garbage after garbage after garbage."

racer76 Wrote:

So you weren't skeptical of that news when you read it? Where'd they go? Why didn't he tell the whole world that he destroyed them, or provide evidence of their destruction? You think this was just a big case of him saying 'none of your business', as in american colloquial speech?

Certainly I was. I would like to hope the rest of the world was too. I was also concerned about the timing of this news, and it's similarity to the very large document filed by Saddam's government with the UN basically saying - 'you can't look everywhere, but we promise we don't have them'... Your government obviously felt it necessary to help the US on this matter, didn't they? I seem to remember some australian contingent there.

Kelly

racer76 Wrote:

Yeah I guess you didnt see them when YOU were there....man I hate this topic...