If he tried for 20 years to get nuclear weapons, with the oil money they had, and couldn't get them, he wasn't trying very hard. More lies.The facts and the truth are relevant, you "#Grubered", freelance faggot, Odumbo Minion from Arkansas. It's your lies and misrepresentation of the facts that are irrelevant, you "#Grubered", freelance faggot, Odumbo Minion from Arkansas.
What you fail to understand IB, is that regardless of whether he was talking about actual nuclear weapons or a nuclear weapons program, Cheney was lying. So it's irrelevant in the end. Originally Posted by WombRaider
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein kept up the illusion that he had weapons of mass destruction before 2003 because he did not think the United States would invade, an FBI agent who questioned him said.
In an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes to be broadcast on Sunday, FBI agent George Piro describes conversations with Saddam in the months after his capture in December 2003.
Piro said Saddam, who was hanged from crimes against humanity in December 2006, wanted to maintain the image of a strong Iraq to deter Iran, its historic enemy, from hostile action.
"He told me he initially miscalculated ... President (George W.) Bush's intentions. He thought the United States would retaliate with the same type of attack as we did in 1998... a four-day aerial attack," Piro said.
"He survived that one and he was willing to accept that type of attack," Piro said, according to excerpts of the interview released on Thursday.
CBS correspondent Scott Pelley asks Piro: "He didn't believe the U.S. would invade?" Piro answers: "No, not initially." ....
"For him, it was critical that he was seen as still the strong, defiant Saddam. He thought that would prevent the Iranians from re-invading Iraq," Piro said.
The Iraqi leader had also intended to restart the weapons program and had the means to do it.
"He still had the engineers. The folks that he needed to reconstitute his program are still there," Piro said. "He wanted ... to reconstitute his entire WMD program." (Reuters)
It's bullshit. When you go up on national TV and say "nuclear weapons", whether you added a "program" at the end is irrelevant. He was deliberately lying and misrepresenting to effect public opinion on the war.Saddam admitted he planned to reconstitute his nuclear program, shamman. Matthews promulgated a lie and Morell called what Matthews promulgated a lie, shamman.
IB and his comrades got grubered. Now they want to argue semantics. These are the same idiots that raised up a shit storm when Obama said that "slander the prophet" line, completely forgetting the context within which it was uttered.
This time around, the context was much worse: justifying an utterly unjustifiable war. It's a disgrace to the soldiers who lost their lives and it's a disgrace to our reputation as a country. Of course, IB doesn't give a shit about either of those so he will blather on like the ignorant cretin he is.
Once again: Originally Posted by shanm