Weapons of Mass Destruction

I think Mr. Bush wanted to go after saddam, one way or another, and I think he would have.

I also think that this theory that he used the WMD as an excuse to go after him is wrong.

I truly beleive that he thought that iraq had them, and maybe it stepped up his plans to invade iraq.

The war or terror was enough excuse to get him in iraq, this debacle of no weapons found is the last thing he needed, and if it was his excuse and he knew they didn't exist they would have better excuses then what they are coming out with.

as much as we like to make him out to be an idiot, he scored 1206 on his SATs 1300 being mensa level, he attended both harvard and yale, and lost his first politcal venture for being seen as to smart.

He plays the every day guy to get the votes, that mixed with his less then stellar public speaking makes people think he is less than smart.
 
WHAT???

not saying I agree with George W.

Just saying this WMD thing has been blown into the biggest conspiricy since kennedy, when there was no real reason for him to lie about it, he had ever reason (going with his politics, and policies) to go into iraq as part of the war on terror, all he had to say was:

"Saddam Huessan has a history of harboring, and training terrorists"

go in, invade, do some happy propiganda. Push the human rights violations iraq has, and no one would bat an eyelash (except of course the people who protest everything, and of course the belgins)

To make up this WMD would be a political mistake in the order of watergate.
 
I actually like what you wrote. It sounds like someone who's thinking as opposed to the usual bashing.
 
paul_valaru said:
To make up this WMD would be a political mistake in the order of watergate.
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I don't disagree with your logic except for the fact that Watergate wasn't a political mistake, it was a crime.
 
Luis G said:
I have no doubt of that, but do you really consider a scud to be a WMD?
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Yes

Scud was first deployed by the Soviets in the mid-1960s. The missile was originally designed to carry a 100-kiloton nuclear warhead or a 2,000 pound conventional warhead, with ranges from 100 to 180 miles. Its principal threat was its warhead potential to hold chemical or biological agents.
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Ms Ann Thrope said:
I don't disagree with your logic except for the fact that Watergate wasn't a political mistake, it was a crime.
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it was a crime but it was a political mistake for Nixon. Nixon himself was the political mistake
 
freako104 said:
it was a crime but it was a political mistake for Nixon. Nixon himself was the political mistake
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The political mistake Nixon made was the crime of trying to cover it up. If he had just let some of his underlings take the fall (can you say scapegoat, I knew that you could) he might have goten away with it. There was no way in hell he was going to lose that election to George McGovern. I never understood the reason for the break-in in the first place.
 
chcr said:
The political mistake Nixon made was the crime of trying to cover it up. If he had just let some of his underlings take the fall (can you say scapegoat, I knew that you could) he might have goten away with it. There was no way in hell he was going to lose that election to George McGovern. I never understood the reason for the break-in in the first place.
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to me the mistake was him in office. He covered it up so noone would take teh blame i thought. to make it look like he and his men were innocent. if he let his men take the blame wouldnt it look bad? the reason was so he could get info on his opponents and he did and he published them.
 
and make the country go paranoid about Commies, cheat to get into office, and successfully be impeached.
 
There was damn good reason to be paranoid about commies. (Nixon, unlike Clinton, was never impeached)
 
your right he left office just before he was impeached. We were paranoid about them becaue they didnt agree with us? didnt we start the arms war? and also didnt we start the cold war?
 
Eric, please, I beg you, start reading history books. Preferably ones that tell the story within context & without rhetoric. You are looking for reasons to belittle the US & it's getting tiresome (since you use nothing of originality) .

It was mutual. The arms race was played by both sides. We damn near had armageddon.
 
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