Looking Like a Lie - WMD's in Iraq
September 23, 2003
We know Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, after all we gave them to
him in the 1980s when he was fighting the Iranians. He surely had them
during the first Gulf War and probably in the late 1990's according to the
UN.
The Bush administration formulated a policy based on WMDs and used it to
justify a preemptive invasion of Iraq due to an imminent threat from WMD's.
Based on what we knew and the fact that Saddam was an evil person, their
arguments made sense to most.
The administration said many times WMDs would be found after we took over
Iraq and the public expectation was and is that they would be found.
We are still waiting.
It has been many months since the fall of Iraq. There are no WMDs... so far
but Bush is still confident of their existence. Maybe he knows something we
don't. Probably, but that won't make them appear nor does it explain where
they are. The fundamental issue is: Since the WMD's almost certainly
existed, where are they?
Will Bush answer that question?
He better.
Bush used WMD's as justification for a war in which
hundreds of Americans died and were wounded. Using a lie about WMDs to start
a war is unconscionable and evil. We will find out soon whether Bush
is a liar and evil.
Let's keep this in mind: What a tangled web we weave . . . when first we
practice to deceive!
Oh yeah, finding evidence of a WMD program such as documents and
photos is not a weapon of mass destruction.
