Reply #85: Knew it all along [View All]

[Canuckistanian]

From the start, it didn't make sense. Why the rush to war? Why would Saddam even have these "WMD"? (I always hated that acronym)?

The missile batteries had all been destroyed after the 1st Gulf war. UN inspectors were crawling all over the countryside and finding nothing significant. There was NO functional Air Force. The Republican Guard had been decimated. "No-fly zones" and economic sanctions themselves would kill off any major military ambitions. Scott Ritter told us all this long before the war started.

And most telling of all, no intelligence that anything big was happening. Even if there were no spies on the ground in Iraq, technology could have told us of any military build-up it there had been one.

Satellites, "Keyhole" radio spying, and sensitive land-based detectors would have outed any such program.
If satellites could find submarines in the middle of the ocean because of their heat blooms, then nothing could hide a major weapons program.

This war was based on pure snake oil.