October 2nd, 2003, 12:12 PM
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Re: [OT] Another heated discussion about the Iraq siutation, war and politics.
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Originally posted by primitive:
Right you are my friend. But the only lesson learned from Iraq, is that you risk getting smacked down if you don’t own any. Iraq didn’t have anything (significant), and I do not think the CIA was so incompetent they didn’t know that.
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Several points. One, we know Saddam had chemical weapons, at some point, because he's used them in the past (on the Kurds and the Iranians). Two, garnering information in a closed and totalitarian society like Baathist Iraq is not easy, especially when the CIA has so few people in its organization who know the language and culture. Three, Saddam refused, categorically and throughout the entire multi-year inspection process, to come totally clean about what the exact status of his WMD stockpiles and programs were. Four, in this day and age, if you wait for "definite proof", you're probably already going to be attacked with a WMD. And I can't think that anyone would seriously suggest that we should have given a proven genocidal thug like Saddam the benefit of the doubt...
[ October 02, 2003, 11:13: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]
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