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Originally posted by JQ:
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Oroginally posted by Rob Kamphausen:

but i have one serious question, if i may, of which i'm mostly interested in the liberal opinion (emphasized not to exclude the conservatives, but to underscore my belief that most from either side is nothing but sheer speculation)

if the current american administration is so diabolical, why not simply plant nuclear or chemical agents in iraq?
I don't really think the Bush administration is diabolic, but I have thought a bit about them planting WMDs in Iraq. It's probably because the international community (France, Germany) would figure out what we were doing. I think it's also possible we found WMD, but they were made in the U.S.A.
You don't believe your own government, but you're quick to believe such a wild scenario.

Based on WHAT can you speculate this kind of total crap?
There isn't a shred of evidence to support it.
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originally posted by Dave the Wonder Boy:

And as I've said repeatedly, it was like taking out Hitler in 1936, rather than waiting till September 1939, when he became a real threat.
I think that that is not only absurd, but unfounded.
Based on what is it absurd and unfounded?
Your statement is unfounded, with nothing to back it up, other than to say "that's absurd and unfounded."

There is clear evidence that Saddam Hussein has previously pursued weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, chemical and biological) and the U.N showed mass stockpiles missing of VX, Sarin and Anthrax (as I've said repeatedly, and been ignored repeatedly). If Hussein had gotten his hands on nukes, then, Hitler-esque, he could take whatever he wanted, and no one could do anything about it.

You can believe what you want, but I don't see that your wild speculation has any basis.

Whereas my "absurd/unfounded" statements have quite a bit of basis in Saddam Hussein's past actions, U.N. sanctions based on these actions, and Hitler-like dominance of his own country, and profusely stated expansionist/imperial ambitions.

As as I've also said repeatedly elsewhere, defectors from high in Saddam's military have said, since 1995 onward, that Hussein has been pursuing WMD's, with a large part of his military devoted to pursing a secret WMD program, and hiding it from U.N. weapons inspectors.

The fact that those weapons haven't been found yet doesn't change the fact that they logically exist. And if Hussein had been given the time, he would have been as formidable with them as Hitler was in 1939.