badskywalker said:
I mean, it was a war that the US government lied to get the public behind. The main thing remembered about it (to the people I've talked in anyway) is that we were told Sadaam had weapons of mass destruction and had some sort of ties to terrorist organizations (the infamous Prague meeting). The only weapons of mass destruction Sadaam had were outlawed chemical weapons, not the nuclear weapons they had been insinuating, and the Prague meeting at the time was doubted by the CIA as ever having taken place, as well as the FBI finding no evidence of the meeting occuring. |
My reply:
1. Yes, Sadaam did possess chemical weapons and had used them in the past.
2. I don't recall any US gov't official saying that Sadaam had nuclear weapons, but that he highly desired them, and his guys were hard at work developing them.
3. Over the course of the war, the US did not find any of the WMDs, including the chemical ones. Which means, that either his guys destroyed them or sent them to another country like Syria.
Bottom line is that Iraq had and used chemical weapons in the past, at the time of the war, and if the war had never happened, Sadaam could have had his guys restart the chemical weapons production line as well as continue development of nukes, and either used them again or passed them on to his sons.
The world is safer today because Sadaam is dead along with his two sons. Sadaam was a mad leader, just like Hitler.
Last edited by BFR - on 08 August 2024
