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This just in -- the Earth is flat.
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Originally posted by Not Me
This is where I lose respect for you. The Admin AND THE WHOLE FUCKING REST OF THE WORLD THOUGHT THERE WERE WMD's IN IRAQ. Stop trying to make it out like this was just the GWB Admin's belief prior to the invasion.
Even the fucking French thought there were WMDs in Iraq.
And there may have well been. And maybe they are now in Syria. We won't know until we invade.
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Go inform yourself and stop acting like a troll. Hans Blix was there, and he didn't find them. He looked in the places our intel said to look, and they weren't there. We all know there were WMD in Iraq years ago, but shit happens. We staged airstrikes in the Clinton Administration (Operation Desert Fox -- look it up) to try to destroy them. We had sanctions. And so on. Our leaders were making categorical statements, but the intel people weren't -- they were hedging their bets because they didn't know. And Blix and his people were there looking, and they couldn't find them. This upset the Admininistration, which had decided to invade and did not take the inspections seriously. Perhaps they thought, in good faith, that they were futile. Perhaps they were cynical. Who knows.
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