"If we know Saddam Hussein has danerous weapons today -- and we do -- does it make any sense for the world to wait to confront him as he grows even stronger and develops even more dangerous weapons?" -- George Bush, Speech in Cincinnati, October 7, 2002.
"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal wapons ever devised." -- George Bush, TV Address, May 17, 2003.
At a press conference on May 3, 2003, President Bush at his Texas ranch told the world: "Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction."
"We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons." -- Vice President Richard Cheney, Meet the Press, September 14, 2003.
Contradicting himself, the President goes back and forth from saying "we beleive" but then during a Polish interview on May 30, 2033 he stated: "We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories. . . and we'll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, we found them."
"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass dstruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us." --- Richard Cheney, speech to the VFW Convention, August 26, 2002. A few days later, Cheney repeated the same thoughts in a speech on August 29, 2002 to the Veterans of the Korean War.
President Abraham Lincoln said: "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring the real facts." -
Where are the Weapons of Mass Destruction that President Bush and his adminstration stated they were found and being amassed against the world? Simply, there were none.
Terrorism attacks happens in public places--where the terrorist will get the most bang for thier bucks -- where there is also media coverage. There objectives can be accomplished by a small group --duped by their leaders to attach bombs under their clothing--becoming walking sucide bombers that blow themselves up in a crowed market places. Others set-off small bombs along public streets, blowing up passing American vehicles or soldier who walk by. Others fire more sophisticated rockets into police barracks, army compounds or into public hotels or community gathering places.
Terrorist do not care who they kill -- even their own people and culture. It is all for their cause.
How do you fight and win such tactics and unknow forces? It is a new type of warfare!
The President knew this war would last a long, long time. His actions were intentional.
"I'm going after the terrorism, and it is going to take years to do this, while thousands of
our sons and daugthers will die." Or, "We are going to invade Iraq--and force them into a
democratic government."
Instead, government intelligent teams came up with the idea of supposed WMD, even though the United Nations and our invading forces come up negative with any such weapons. Nonetheless, the Bush Administration accepted false intelligence, which allowed the President to tell the American people there were WMD. This put the "fear" into the American people, especially after what happened on September 11, 2001. (See Terrorism 101) I am positive that if our President, would have said: "I want to go to war to fight terrorism, or to force a deomocractic government in Iraq," we would not be in Iraq today. Once again the American people are duped into another Vietnam.
It makes me mad not only that our President lied, but that he insults the American people with his "bait and trap" fallacy to lure the American people's support of us to invade Iraq -- when the terrorist were know to come from other Middle East countries.