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Originally Posted by Webby
OK.. Will answer since you are least tried this time 
This is old stuff and hardly worth comment - the facts are already admitted and several versions of alternative justification have been offered - all excuses with little merit.
The problem there is you never saw a knife. nor did you have access to some magical intelligence to say there was a knife. You *should* have had excellent intelligence to know the facts since you knew your chosen "enemy" very well and worked with him for decades in the past against another chosen "enemy", Iran.
Anyways... this is another unrelated diversion to the thread - it has nothing to do with the standards of political promotion in TV ads. |
Well, we knew that Saddam had WMD, we knew that he was prepared to use them, we knew that he said he had them, we knew that he said he wouldn't get rid of them and we knew that he was stopping the inspectors from seeing what they wanted to see.
Not that it really matters, because the war was always about regime change, with the WMD riddance being something of a bonus byproduct of regime change.
But in any case, we know that x hundred chemical weapon shells (some functional, some not) have been found in Iraq since the war and that the old factories used to manufacture them were dismantled and shipped to Syria, so there's no point now trying to claim that there never were any. And we know that the truckload of chemical weapons which was caught at the Syrian/ Jordanian border back in 2004 had to have come from somewhere.
But some people think that campaign videos reminding us that the enemy will stop at nothing to kill us are somehow inappropriate. For me, I don't need to see videos like that because I already know what the enemy wants and why, but there are millions of people out there who have never picked up a copy of the Qur'an or Hadiths and I don't think it's a bad thing for them to be reminded from time to time that there are some nasty people who want to kill them just for being American.