A Usenet persona calling itself Michael Daly wrote:

On 19-Feb-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

Well, some of them were used on the Kurds in the late eighties,

Which were outside the time frame for which the yanks were able
to claim there was a problem with WMDs. The latter only apply
post 1991.

Sez who?


and I imagine the rest of them are in Syria or are buried in
the desert somewhere. After all, he had 12 years to conceal them.

Why would he hide them instead of using them to defend himself?

He did. Evidence of Sarin was found on the battlefield, and numerous
Sarin-filled artillery shells were found. They were not used because the
artillery commanders refused to fire them, knowing that if they did, they
risked nuclear conflict.

The
obvious nonsense in your claim is that Saddam would rather live in a
spider hole than fight back.

You misunderstand the command and control systems in Iraq. Saddam suffered
the typical fate of dictators. As soon as things began to go badly for him,
and his commanders and soldiers saw a probability that the US would prevail,
and that Saddam would be driven into hiding, his commanders and his troops
abandoned him, stripped off their uniforms, dumped their personal arms and
surrendered gladly to US troops.

He didn't fight back effectively because no dictator can who rules by terror
and intimidation when a liberator with a real chance appears.

They didn't exist

They existed. He created them. He used them. He refused to permit unfettered
inspections and engaged in shell-game moving about of them, and he likely
removed them to Syria, along with billions in gold and cash, before the
invasion.

- he was just an
asshole that was tried to pretend they existed to impress the
arabs he was trying to influence.

Then he made a terrible mistake, didn't he.

The US played to this,

We reacted based on the best intelligence available at the time. Hindsight
is always 20/20.

just as
they are jumping on the bandwagon to play to N. Korea's every
claim about nuclear weapons.

Are you suggesting that we should NOT take North Korea's claim to have
nuclear weapons seriously? How....idiotic of you.

It is in the interests of a war
monger to make sure that there is always an enemy.

We don't have to manufacture enemies, there are plenty of real ones out
there, and the only reason YOU get to spout your crap is because the US has
for decades maintained the balance of power and peace around the world.


I imagine we'll find them eventually.

Not likely, since America's given up looking.

For now. We've got other things to do.

But then, you've never
let facts interfere with your opinions.

You, on the other hand, wouldn't know a fact if it were shoved up your ass.

--
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Scott Weiser

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