Only if you think that spending 2 trillion dollars and having 4 thousand soldiers die to find corroded WMD's from 1980's that were non-functional was a good idea.See, now here I got all excited, waiting with baited breath for a thoughtful, cogent, and detailed reply.
A detailed reply to her nonsense is coming. Originally Posted by flghtr65
From the Link posted by JD. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...pons.html?_r=0
The discoveries of these chemical weapons did not support the government’s invasion rationale.
After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Mr. Bush insisted that Mr. Hussein was hiding an active weapons of mass destruction program, in defiance of international will and at the world’s risk. United Nations inspectors said they could not find evidence for these claims.
Then, during the long occupation, American troops began encountering old chemical munitions in hidden caches and roadside bombs. Typically 155-millimeter artillery shells or 122-millimeter rockets, they were remnants of an arms program Iraq had rushed into production in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq war.
All had been manufactured before 1991, participants said. Filthy, rusty or corroded, a large fraction of them could not be readily identified as chemical weapons at all. Some were empty, though many of them still contained potent mustard agent or residual sarin. Most could not have been used as designed, and when they ruptured dispersed the chemical agents over a limited area, according to those who collected the majority of them.
In case after case, participants said, analysis of these warheads and shells reaffirmed intelligence failures. First, the American government did not find what it had been looking for at the war’s outset, then it failed to prepare its troops and medical corps for the aged weapons it did find.
Yes, these corroded weapons from the 1980's that can't be used don't count. This is not what Bush sold to the American people. Do you think it was worth 2 trillion dollars and the life of 4 thousand soldiers to find corroded weapons from the 1980's. If you do you have lost your mind. Originally Posted by flghtr65
Then it turns out this was the best you had to offer. Sigh. Off to the corner with Zanzibar for you. All talk, no walk.