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Originally Posted by Arpanet
No. There was never any intelligence stating for sure that Saddam had WMD. Rumsfeld's pre-invasion comments to the contrary, the administration never had incontrovertible proof of the existence of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Why? There never were any WMD. We should have been POSITIVE of that fact before using it as justification for invasion. "There are probably WMD over there somewhere" is not enough. And why does what Saddam thought matter? It's not the intelligence community's job to know what Saddam thinks; their job is to know what's *actually there.* There are no WMDs in Iraq. So why are we there?
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I really think that Saddam got rid of all of his WMD before we invaded, so he wouldnt get busted with it. I mean October (publicly announcing a possiblity of an invasion) to March (the start of the invasion) is 5 months. Thats a very long time, and it is very possible that Saddam got rid of in one way or another, whatever WMD he possessed at the time. If we had kept our mouth shut and got them off guard, it may have been different. But Bush wanted international support, not that it seems to count for much anyway due to all the people protesting. Simple thing is, you aint going to make everyone happy, especially on something like this, and that is what Bush decided to do.
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