Poll: Do you believe that Iraq ever had weapons of mass destruction?

[Cannikin]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/

Do you believe that Iraq ever had weapons of mass destruction?

Yes


79.0%

No


19.4%

I'm not sure


1.6%


Total Votes : 248

[travisleit01]

1. Ever??

Meaning the month before the invasion? Or back in the 80s and 90s. I'm sure they had them in the 80s, we have the receipts!

[arko]

21. Ever,

Of course, I don't really believe that all those dead kurds committed mass suicide.

The Iranians might have faked those mustard gas burns all over them, I could buy that.

But, really here's what I think happened. Based on my observations of bureacracy in action. Sadam, a ruthless dictator, orders his subordinates to develop the weapons but not to get caught. Thus putting his bureacrats into an impossible no win situation. And they did what bureacrats do best, they wrote reports bragging on their progress and did nothing.

The stuff that has been found so far, mostly relics of the Iranian war, some prototypes of banned delivery systems, and documents which appear to be bureacratic snow jobs to keep Sadam off their back.

One question I haven't heard and answer on from either this administration or anybody else. What happened to all the materials that were documented by the U.N. after the first war but disapeared between the first set of inspections and the last. Speculating wildly I would guess another order, by Sadam was given to hide the materials where the U.N. couldn't find them. The subordinates disposed of the materials, a good way to hide them, but told Sadam they were hidden. If he had actually ordered the disposal why wouldn't he have let the U.N. document the disposal and had the sanctions lifted.

I really believe Sadam did not have the weapons at the time of our attack but that he thought otherwise, and believed they were hidden. I recognize that all of this is idle speculation but, how else can we reconcile Sadam's behavior with the fact that there doesn't appear to be any significant quanties of WMD's to be found.

I can't know what Bush knew and when he knew it, but if they were going to fake us out, why not just load up some of our chemical stock pile, we're trying to get rid of it anyway, out in Utah and refill some of those empty chemical war heads they found and bury them out in the desert come back the next day with a camera crew and dig them up.



It could be Bush and Sadam were both fooled, wouldn't that be ironic.

[IronLionZion]

23. It wouldn't take much to fool Bush

Uncle Dick and Uncle Ron just give him some pretzels and he'll believe anything.

[Cannikin]

2. LOL..Indeed! I assume they mean as a justification for war.

[Solomon]

12. No . Absolutely not. My my how the propaganda has succeeded

Chemical and biological weapons ARE NOT, I repeat, NOT weapons of mass destruction. Nukes are weapons of mass destruction. The very creation of the term "weapons of mass destruction" is designed to avoid the fact that they never ever had any nukes.

[KissMyAsscroft]

3. Another BS worded Poll Question..

Do you think Bush ever drank on the job?

[name not needed]

4. Yes

Do you ever believe W was on crack on the job?

[cjbuchanan]

5. It is now 77.7% yes and 20.8% no

Only need about 100 votes to change this poll around. Everyone get voting.

[rwheeler31]

9. why

It is a loaded question?

[Nite Owl]

10. Just did it

and no's are up to 53.8%

[buycitgo]

6. EVER? that's the STUPIDEST poll question I've EVER seen!

did Japan EVER have WMDs?

did Russia EVER have WMDs?

did Germany EVER have WMSs?

when are we going to invade all of them?

[0rganism]

7. Attempted internet poll slanting reaches new lows

OF COURSE IRAQ HAD WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, SADDAM BOUGHT THEM FROM RONALD REAGAN.

[TahitiNut]

8. Did Iraq CREATE its own weapons of mass destruction??

Remember, all that's been found are the beginnings of (research) programs to create such weaponry. There is nothing to suggest that their programs ever reached the capability to create those weapons within Iraq. No industrial base for their creation has ever been found. None. That's not something easily hidden or disassembled.

The US has spent over $30billion in the last 15-20 years to merely begin cleaning up the hazardous waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Eastern Washington, an area of hundreds of square miles, much of it with a staggering amount of hellishly toxic radioactive wastes, the unknown chemistry of which is still being studied. The many millions spent to merely clean up aged napalm cannisters at Umatilla Army Depot where they were merely stored has failed to totally eradicate the pollution. The production and storage of this weaponry leaves far greater evidence than most can even imagine. And no trace has been found in Iraq. We should be so lucky to have no 'trace' in our country.

Thus, if they had them, they were provided from some other country. (Calling Mr. Rumsfeld?) That might be a hint about where they went, if they ever had more than they actually used 15 years ago.

I don't know why something this simple isn't obvious to nearly everyone.

[mike1963]

11. It's a military town. But setting aside that chem/bio agents are NOT WMDs

let's see just who really does have them (nukes):

India
China
Russia (and how many former client states?)
N. Korea (probably)
Israel
Japan, (maybe)
Pakistan
USA
Brazil (very possible)
France
UK

Who did I miss?

[cjbuchanan]

13. Has it been taken down?

Does not seem to be coming up any more.

[Cannikin]

14. Wow. Way to go DU!

Yes
18.7%
No
80.9%

I'm not sure


0.3%

Total Votes : 1149

[ronnykmarshall]

15. Look at it now!

Yes 18.7%

No 81.0%

I'm not sure 0.3%


Total Votes : 1150

[Cannikin]

16. Weapons of Mass Destruction Related Program Activities........

John Stewart said 'What is that? Craft services for the scientists?'

[LincolnMcGrath]

17. weapons of ass construction

Do you believe that Iraq ever had weapons of mass destruction?

Yes


18.6%

No


81.0%

I'm not sure


0.3%


Total Votes : 1153

[JanMichael]

18. I knew they HAD (At one time) them & perhaps had some left over.

But nothing that could be used beyond a very small area. Nothing that could threaten us. Certainly not the TONS that the lying Bushites claimed.

On top of that I believed that the inspectors had destroyed some 98% of all chem/bio weapons in that nation and the other 2% were probably either expired or simply an accounting snafu.

I figured there was a very good chance that they probably had none at all.

Needless to say I went to DC to make that point...

Edit: Now? I doubt that they had any what so ever.

[eagler]

19. Yes, but

I think that Clinton bombed almost all of them out of existence in the late 90's.

[Born_a_Democrat]

20. Sure they did...Saint Ronnie sold them and Rumfilled Delivered 'em

Yes 16.3%

No 83.4%

I'm not sure 0.3%


Total Votes : 1369



I think a better question for this poll would be Did Iraq have WMD for the time that * says they did.

[MrPrax]

22. Cheap tactic that smells of desperation

The jigs up and the Media knows it...

It is like asking if Cuba EVER had nukes?

Well, yeah...temporarily

Actually they might ask that question for the Sunday edition