WMD do exist---Bush puts Country in Jeopardy

104 days since Iraqi war began and the Bush administration has not secured the Weapons of Mass Destruction. As late as June 9, 61 days ago Bush puts together the Iraqi Survey Group and dedicates only 1,400 people to the effort. That is a small contingency to be searching the entire country of Iraq.

This week Bush paid out $30 million to an informant who supplied information that lead to Udai and Qusai. There is a $25 million reward for Saddam Hussein. Yet to my knowledge there is not one penny dedicated towards a reward for the location of WMDs.

It is my charge that Bush has been derelict in his duty to protect this country. Simply because we do not know where the existing WMDs are located does not mean that there are not those who do. Because of the lackluster and lackadaisical approach to finding the weapons Bush has placed this country in danger of biological attack. As they told us over and over we may well find the weapons location when there is a mushroom cloud over one of our cities. It will be Bush who is to blame when it happens.

He did not urgently seek the location of the WMDs. He did not offer a reward for their location. He did not dedicate enough manpower to finding them. It is as if he wanted to allow enough time to pass so that they could be transferred to terrorist.

IMHO this is the argument. We accept what was said they do exist. If they exist then with each passing day and we did not find them we are at jeopardy of them being transferred to terrorist. Bush did not commit enough resources or energy to finding them. Bush is to blame for the terrorist having WMDs.


ON EDIT: The point is this: We take their statements on WMD for a fact, which leaves us not to argue they do or don’t exist. It leaves us with the charge that because so much time has passed due to ineffective planning and urgency that Bush has allowed them to pass to terrorist. If they are found how do we know that some of them were not passed to terrorist during the time it took Bush to find them. That is the argument. He was derelict.

...gives Bush the perfect reason to declare martial law and cancel the 2004 election. Perhaps this is exactly what "they" want.

than whether or not we can prove Saddam had WMD's. Because this misadministration placed a higher priority on securing the oil wells, then it did on securing the known WMD sites, the danger of another terrorist attack has greatly increased.

Even if Saddam had WMD's, I would assume that by now they've already been sold on the black market or even EBay.

Bush is derelict because he did not commit the resources or the urgency to finding them.

... have been so superficial and unsuccessful is, IMHO, a demonstration that this madministration didn't believe its own lies.

There is no logical analysis, based on any assumptions whatsoever about the WMDs, that doesn't condemn this madministration's behavior.

Your post, as usual, is on the mark. The disinterest in finding WMD's, and the PR spin that "we'll find them, eventually" or "it's not the weapons, but the program" is the empirical evidence that they knew there would be nothing to find from day one.
The Professor

according to this article in Chicago-Sun Times...

That evidence included documents detailing how to conceal arms plants as commercial facilities, and for restarting weapons production once the coast was clear, officials told reporters.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/iraq/cst-nws-wmd01.html

What a load of crap!!:mad:

in broken English.

/sarcasm off/

Is it possible that a country or terrorist group might disguise a weapons factory as a pharmacuetical plant? But not in Iraq, in Sudan about 5 years ago?

for so long on WMD it would look like a flip flop to suddenly begin to believe in the very WMD we have denied the existence of. However, this is not only a better poeition to take politically, but also a safer one for the nation.

These WMD were eyeballed by the inspectors soon after the first gulf war ended. They existed then and probably do now since Saddam would not have been likely to deny access to inspectors if what they would find was that the weapons had been destroyed. They almost certainly still exist and will either be found in Iraq, which would be good news for America and Bush, or they are in Syria or some other unfreindly nation.