Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq

[Black Dog]

So what your saying is because they don't share a border, Iraq is no threat. That would answer the question as to Why Israel was on a war footing in both gulf wars. because they thought Sadam and is cronies did not share a border. Of course that was what everyone thought before 9/11.

The answer to your question was in the statement you are responding to. SCUDs. Who are Saddam's cronies? And what the hell does 9-11 have to do with anything?

Bullshit, Sadam did meet with Al quada members, which brings the question to WHY, if he was not interested in doing something...he regularly sponsored PLO terror groups, and has ties with Hamas and other Anti-Israel groups. And had the funds to create havoc anywhere. He may not of been top dog in area but he was a player and a threat.

IF Saddam met with Al Qaeda members it could be for any number of reasons othe rthan plannning something (for example, he could have wante dto cut a deal with AQ to leave him alone: after all, Al Qaeda was no friend of Saddam. He4ll, in the first Gulf War, bin Laden petitioned the House of Saud to allow him to use his fighters to expel Iraq frm Kuwait.)

As for the rest, nothing there shows that Saddam was anything more than a local bully.

You know as well as i do you don't have to sell directly to the US ,to effect the price, supply etc...And while high prices are good for the oil industry, it sucks for everything else.

And yet Saddam was perfectly willing to continue to keep the pumps open. Why would someone who's only interest was keeping power throw away the one thing (oil) that required others to deal with him?

These are not simple arty rounds that litter the battle field, they are WMD, these 500 arty shells would be more than capable of killing everything in a city greater than toronto in a few hours. something you don't want your enemy finding and then using again'st you. something that is strictly controled, it's very use is controled by sadam himself. In fact there very presence on a battlefield could escalated into something much bigger. Sadam knew this very well, in fact he had already been told by the british in gulf I that if chemicals were used Britian would use tac nukes. He was crazy but not suicidal.

even Sadam is not that dumb as to bury them, then forgetting were he put them, i don't buy that for one second. Something of this value he would know it's exact location

Well, this is all speculation. All I know is this: these shells appear to have been buried during or after the Iran-Iraq war. That fact and their condition when found suggests either a lack of knowledge of them or a lack of interest.

Even the UN inspection team has said there is evidance that he had capabilites to produce more than what was found, they highly suspected he did produce more ...which included a memo from Sadam not to destroy all his WMD. as for why he did not use them the same reason he did'nt use them the first gulf war. Because he knew that there use would cost him more than he could ever inflict on the coalition forces.

That line of reasoning doesn't wash. For one thing, the coalition in GWI stopped at the Kuwait border and thus didn't pose a threat to Saddam's regime. Whereas the explicit intent of GW11 was to remove him. Given that, plus the state of his military and the power of the forces lined up against him, he would have had nothing to lose. If you've read any of the accounts of captured regime officals, they talk of Saddam tantalizing them with talk of a "secret weapon" to preserve the regime (assumed to be some kind of WMD), only to have Saddam drop the metaphoric bombshell that the WMD cupboard was bare.