Thursday, December 15, 2005
WMD
Given Yaalon's position in the IDF and his Intelligence access and leadership, I view this as powerful evidence of the existence of an Iraqi WMD program prior to the war.
Furthermore, it implies a much more serious problem is dealing with Assad's hideous, tyrannical regime. He can threaten to arm Hezbollah with military grade chemical weaponry -- a powerful bargaining chip.
5 Comments:
By 
Dawnfire82, at
Thu Dec 15, 02:59:00 PM:
Iraqi weapons could certainly have, by now, been mixed in with Syria's own chemical weapons to conceal their origins. I expect that the issue will die. There's simply nothing to be done about it.
By Gordon Smith, at
Thu Dec 15, 11:11:00 PM:
Please go watch this clip of our President on the eve of war. Then maybe you'll understand why we crazy, loony, moonbats think that George W. Bush sold the war to America on the basis of an imminent threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
LINK
By Gordon Smith, at
Thu Dec 15, 11:12:00 PM:
...oh...and the whole "there really are/were WMDs, but we just didn't find them you stupidheads" defense makes you look crazy...
By Dawnfire82, at
Fri Dec 16, 02:11:00 AM:
Crazy like the American, British, German, French, Czech, Turkish, Israeli, et cetera intelligence services who were all completely convinced that Iraq had WMD's as well. Oh, and the UN IAEA. No one said they didn't, at least not publically; why else would there have been inspections? The debate was on whether inspections should continue or if it was a worthless waste of time because Iraq would never stop hindering them. And they *were* hindering.
Incredible how people forget inconvenient facts...
By Cardinalpark, at
Fri Dec 16, 09:18:00 AM:
SH - i wasn't making a politcal commentary on the cause of war. I believe in the propriety of the decision regardless. You don't. We disagree.
I am concerned about the prospects for Syrian use or distribution, that's all. Especially given their alignment with Iran and Hezbollah.
Generally, I would think you wuld express some concern about that too. you might eve cleverly argue that by attacking Iraq, we created that problem (i.e. Saddam proliferating his WMD). that would be an ironic criticism.
So what do you say?
