Jim- It is a misconception that the US sold WMDs to Iraq between 1980 and 1988. 85-90% of the armaments we sold to Iraq were conventional weapons and equipment. During the first 2 years, if memory serves, we sold some chemicals that made up the ingredients used in WMDs.
Saddam could not keep those armaments sitting sround due to their short shelf life. Therefore, when Saddam launched the Anfal Campaign of 1987, and attacked the Kurdish towns around Hallabja, it was with WMDs HE created in HIS plants. Those weapons were destined to be used against Iran.
If I give you $100 for food and you buy crack, I am not to blame for your drug habit since the money was destined for food. See what I mean?
The intel on WMDs was not manipulated by Bush. If it were true and Bush did nothing, Liberals would now be criticizing the President FOR NOT DOING ANYTHING. Clinton used that same information when he bombed Iraq on two seperate occasions.
As for my statement that Liberals are the equivalent to terrorists, I truly believe that there is an enemy inside and outside the US. The terrorists love it when we have protesters marching down the street calling for an end to Iraq, American support for Israel, against the war on terror. I don't have a problem when it comes to disagreeing on domestic issues, but when we are in the midst of World War III and people are insulting the President while at war, regardless of his political party, then I feel that that form of extreme liberalsim is not healthy, and treasonous.
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