Did you believe that Saddam had WMD.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-10-02 07:45pm

Simple question.

At the beginning of GW2 did you believe the statements by GWB and TB that Saddam had WMD.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2003-10-02 07:47pm

Simple answer: YES

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2003-10-02 07:48pm

What?! No "I didn't care at the time." option?

Frankly, I don't even remember what I was thinking back then. IIRC which is unlikely, I was rooting for Saddam to just get the fuck out.~Jason

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-10-02 07:52pm

StimNeuro · Post by **StimNeuro** » 2003-10-02 07:56pm

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-10-02 08:02pm

Of course. So did a lot of the world, even many of those who disagreed with the war.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-10-02 08:05pm

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-10-02 08:22pm

Yes, I did.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-10-02 08:28pm

Yes, but not nuclear WMD's.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-10-02 08:31pm

I figured they probably had something stashed away in the sands. I also didn't really care.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2003-10-02 08:31pm

I beliefed that he may or may not have had some WMD left over from he's pre-GW1 projects. I did not belief that he was developing or building new ones or that he had the capability to effectively deploy the weapons he might posses or that he was actively pursuing the means to do so. So I don't quite know whether I should vote yes or no...

I think I'll vote no, since I didn't bealief what Shrubby said and I didn't consider the few weapons Iraq might have had to pose a note worthy threat anyone.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-10-02 08:32pm

TrailerParkJawa wrote:Yes, but not nuclear WMD's.

I don't think anyone did.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-10-02 08:35pm

Howedar, stop stacking the poll.

Bad Howedar. Baaaaad.

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2003-10-02 08:42pm

Yes, but small deployment and effect abilites. No threat to us and reason to waste good money.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-10-02 08:43pm

weemadando wrote:Howedar, stop stacking the poll.

Bad Howedar. Baaaaad.

AFAIK the poll system will only register votes once per user, even if he puts in multiple ones by accident.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-10-02 08:47pm

phongn wrote:
weemadando wrote:Howedar, stop stacking the poll.

Bad Howedar. Baaaaad.
AFAIK the poll system will only register votes once per user, even if he puts in multiple ones by accident.

I know that, I was merely taking the piss. Damn a quad post, haven't seen one of those for ages.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-10-02 09:50pm

No, for a couple reasons.

If he'd had them, and the U.S. government knew about it, they would have plastered incontrovertible proof everywhere, instead of merely re-hashing Saddam's career the way they did to paint him as the naughty boy.

He probably would have used them, somewhere, somehow in the intervening years between GW1 and 2.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-10-02 10:07pm

No, there is no evidence to support that conclusion. If he had them, he'd have used them when our troops came knocking. As it stands, his country was living under economic sanctions and his government and military crumbled so quickly that it'd be a big surprise to me to find out that they kept a weapons program going that was anything resembling a threat to this country.

PrinceofLowLight · Post by **PrinceofLowLight** » 2003-10-02 10:28pm

I figured he probably had chemical weapons left over. I always figured the thing with bio and chemical weapons are more about willingness than ability to use. All you need is a herd of goats to create a good amount of anthrax. Creating chlorine and mustard gas is turn of the century tech. Of course, when they weren't used I got just a teeny bit suspicious...

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-10-02 10:32pm

I thought they had something, but maybe not the WMDs described. However, I didn't support the war because of potential WMDs.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-10-02 10:48pm

weemadando wrote:I know that, I was merely taking the piss. Damn a quad post, haven't seen one of those for ages.

If it were a quad post, they'd all say the same thing. Do they say the same thing, or is one of them a request for several of the others to be deleted?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-10-02 10:58pm

I thought he might still have some chemical weapons left over, but I never bought the nuclear threat for a microsecond. The stench of bullshit was strong around that one.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-10-02 11:00pm

Yes, this is true. There must be differentiation in this thread between chem-bio and nuclear weapons.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2003-10-02 11:09pm

Chem? Maybe. Bio? ...Does having his Elite Guard piss in the Tigris all at once count?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-10-02 11:17pm

Did the government ever try to make the case that Iraq was in possession of nuclear weapons?

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