Does this prove that Bush never believed...

[KellyPaDem]

I was reading into the missing explosives. The Pentagon said that the Al Qaqaa ammo storage facility was a medium on what places were to be secured. They also believed that there was a possibility that WMD's were stored at this location.

Okay if we really believed that there was WMD's and the main reason to invade Iraq was to keep these out of the hands of terrorist, then wouldn't you want to get into these places BEFORE they could be looted, possibly by terrorist?

So beyond the fact that explosives were taken and are being used against our troops. Doesn't this prove they never believed that there were Weapons of Mass Destructions?

I'm not into conspiracies. But this seems to be another angle that should be explored.

Am I crazy or does this make sense?

[aquart]

1. You just figured this out? Congratulations.

Bullies only attack the weak. They were dead sure there was nothing that could be thrown against us. Hell, Saddam didn't have anything to hit us with in the FIRST Gulf War.

They were freaking STUNNED at the amount of resistance.

You should have read their postwar rebuilding plan. It read like the cleanup in the aftermath of an earthquake or hurricane. They honestly believed they would have no opposition.

As for the poison gas suits our soldiers wore, my suspicion is you would have to see which Republican contributor manufactured them. Our soldiers tossed them (at a cost of how much?) very rapidly.

[KellyPaDem]

2. I have always had suspicions

What I'm trying to ask is if this is PROOF. You know something that can be used in an argument. Something that will finally lead the media to say, "hmmm" Something that people who don't read this board will sit up and take notice.... I was wondering whether or not this story and the slant of no weapons of mass destruction will take hold some where other than Democratic blogs.

[unblock]

4. i think this shows they listened to the military ceos, not the generals

when the republicans talk about supporting the military, and letting the military do what the military does, and supporting the troops, what they really mean is letting the ceos of the military contractors run the show.

the ceos of the military contractors, in turn, do what's best for their companies. total destruction is profitable. massive rebuilding is profitable.

guarding existing buildings and weapons stashes is not.

[gavodotcom]

5. "As for the poison gas suits our soldiers wore, my suspicion is you wo..."

http://www.stimson.org/cbw/?SN=CB20030212494

Over 800,000 protective suits sold to the DoD were defective. The company, Isatex, is now bankrupt.

The new company is German-based, President and owner is Hasso von Blücher. Tex-Shield is the American distributor.

http://nucnews.net/nucnews/2003nn/0304nn/030408nn.htm

[Stockholm]

3. Read Blix´s "Disarming Iraq"

He writes about how the inspectors grew more and more suspicious of the WMD claims when every inspection they made based on information from "allied" intelligence agencies proved to be worthless.