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WMD & Iraq success

Reader comment on item: About Those Iraqi WMD
in response to reader comment: WMD.....only one problem

Submitted by Don Weber (United States), Apr 27, 2006 at 01:48

The constant drumbeat of negative news and mis-information spewed by the media (and the dems) has painted the winning Iraq war as a disaster. It can be disheartening listening to the biased media, but the determined President is leading us to victory and success in Iraq. A permanent government is being stood up, the security forces are getting stronger and assuming a much greater role in leading operations and protecting the country. It's hard work but worth it, and we're winning.

A big scandal has been the under-reporting of the HUGE U.N. oil-for-food fraud and the degree to which France & Russia were invested in Saddam. An astute e-mailer (Neville) above makes an excellent reference about the Russians & why they acted as they did. Iraq may have been dysfunctional, but I beleive Mr. Pipes overstates Saddam's delusion, i.e. there almost certainly were WMDs in Iraq before the war. The Russians definitely know and probably helped remove them -- to Syrai, Belarus, both? I think it's a combinatoin of several things -- some still buried, much disposed in the rivers and by other means, some moved to Syria, perhaps elsewhere, and also -- there probably wasn't as much as we thought, but they had them.

The only ones who have lied about Iraq are the democrats and those accusing Bush of deceit. The CIA along with every other intelligence service agreed that Iraq had WMD. We were not all wrong. And as the documents being discovered and reviewed in Iraq reveal, there was a robust connection bewteen Iraq and terrorists, including al Qaeda & Bin Laden. Only those opposed to Bush, or too lazy get the facts, deny the Iraq-terrorist connections and dismiss the growing threat and destabllizing force posed by Saddam & his thuggish Iraq.

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CELEBRATION OR MOURNING [155 words]Balarabe AbbaJan 9, 2011 12:12181669
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It's really quite simple [206 words]Sword of IslamApr 28, 2006 00:5844379
Bigger picture basically [231 words]JayApr 27, 2006 23:2544375
Freud's Take On A Madman [1253 words]John R.Apr 27, 2006 22:0244371
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WMD's in Syria?? [105 words]GideonApr 26, 2006 12:5844249
Syria! [62 words]HarrakApr 26, 2006 16:2644249
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show details [160 words]HarrakApr 28, 2006 16:1944249
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good suggestion! [178 words]HarrakMay 2, 2006 20:4544249
Saddam's "only good news" policy similar to Bush's bubble [137 words]ChrisApr 26, 2006 11:4744245
Slight correction -- or modification [48 words]ddsApr 26, 2006 10:0644239
Rush to War [41 words]IraApr 26, 2006 09:4044238
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Saddam removed the WMD's in Iraq and sent them to Syria [47 words]GregApr 26, 2006 00:1044188
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Reply to Paul M. Neville [7 words]Seamus MacNemiJul 25, 2007 22:0044172
Contradiction with Book by Dr Hamzer, "Saddam's Bombmaker" [46 words]
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if what you claim is true [88 words]staffordApr 25, 2006 17:5244156
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All bureaucrats tell the boss what he wants to hear . . . [171 words]MaureenApr 25, 2006 15:0344131
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good article. If the French and Germans had not betrayed us ... [92 words]Christopher GameApr 25, 2006 14:1544124
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Iraq's WMD [77 words]Dan RusenApr 25, 2006 12:5244112
WMD.....only one problem [209 words]Marc MayersonApr 25, 2006 12:4544111
self-congratulations are outdated [76 words]G.BisvasApr 26, 2006 05:0144111
WMD & Iraq success [296 words]Don WeberApr 27, 2006 01:4844111
Re: Only One Problem [356 words]jr565Apr 27, 2006 18:4644111
A question. [12 words]concernedApr 25, 2006 11:4744104
Remember What's His Name [84 words]BlackspeareApr 25, 2006 20:4644104

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