Bush: Disappointed there weren't WMDs

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-24-2003
Bush: Disappointed there weren't WMDs
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Wed, 10-13-2004 - 1:14pm
"I wasn‘t happy when we found out there wasn‘t weapons, and we‘ve got an intelligence group together to figure out why."

This moment in the debate has resonated in my mind for nearly a week now...

A Freudian slip to say the least on GW's part. I'll bet he WAS disappointed. As the man can't 'fess up to being WRONG. He SHOULD have said "I was EMBARRASSED when we found out there WERE NO weapons...."

What historical bushisms will be said this evening...

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-07-2004
Wed, 10-13-2004 - 1:18pm
You have to remember, they really had NO IDEA what was in Iraq. How could they? There wasn't a single CIA agent on the ground in Iraq gathering Intelligence on WMD data since 1998.

5 years without ONE HUMAN BEING on the ground.

Yet, Bush lovers claim again and again that everyone believed there were WMD stockpiles in Iraq.

Pesticides and materials you can buy at ACE Hardware != WMD.

iVillage Member
Registered: 02-23-2004
Wed, 10-13-2004 - 1:25pm

5 years without ONE HUMAN BEING on the ground.>

Thanks to Saddam Hussein's defiance of the UN and refusal to comply with the terms of his surrender.



Most people DID believe it-John Kerry believed it, John Edwards believed it, the UN Security Council believed it, very few didn't believe it. After all, Saddam could have very easily proven he had no WMD's by cooperating with inspectors. The fact that he wouldn't, combined with what was known that he previously had, led most people to believe he must still have them. Reports say that Saddam himself may have been duped by his own scientists into believing he had them. Intelligence is not a science, it's an art. September 11 taught us we couldn't take the chance that the intelligence was wrong, given we were not able to verify that for ourselves.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-07-2004
Wed, 10-13-2004 - 1:36pm
Not one of them believed military force was required.

I believe I've already asked you if you read France/Germany/Russia/China's statements to the UNSC when Bush was trying to enforce UNSC 1441 with military force (He wouldn't even let them vote, pah!). I don't believe you have, or you wouldn't be posting what you're posting. Of course, you didn't read Kerry's open letter to the President less than 2 weeks before the invasion began voicing his opposition to the plan (and/or lack of a plan as we've seen overwhelming evidence of) eh?

No, I'm sure none of that matters to Bush lovers.

The CIA has agents in countries all over the world gathering intelligence of all sorts. You're actually going to say to this forum that because Saddam kicked out the inspectors (Bush did too in 3/2003) that this caused the CIA not to operate in Iraq?

Outrageous.

Like Hello!? How can you claim there's intelligence when the CIA wasn't gathering it? Who said it was a grave and growing threat? :)

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-05-2004
Wed, 10-13-2004 - 2:44pm
Don't forget on which Bush would show up. Heh heh. He's had two different sides so far, so what's going to be next? It's like a soap opera.