Just saw the "WMDs to Syria" canard again

[GaYellowDawg]

For the life of me, I can't figure out why in the hell people actually believe this. Why in the hell would Saddam Hussein ship his WMDs to Syria? If he had them, why wouldn't he use them? Hussein knew full well that if the US invaded, he was either dead, or captured, then dead after a show trial. Given those circumstances, any megalomaniac would have used every single WMD that he had. The second that the US invaded, Hussein losing his power and life was inevitable and he had literally nothing to lose. I just can't see why in the hell people can't connect these dots. It's such a simple question:

"Hussein shipped his WMDs to Syria."
"Why would he do that?"

There is a complete lack of critical thinking here and it PISSES ME OFF!!!

[Evergreen Emerald]

1. We had him under satellite surveillance

Had he moved WMDs we would have seen them. It is totally BS.

[GaYellowDawg]

3. I know it's BS.

You know it's BS. What I can't figure out is why in the hell there are people who buy it.

[Cosmocat]

6. It is mindnumbing ...

I agree ... But, it just tracks along with all the other bizarre black holes that have to exist in the rationales of the Right Wing Followers ...

1) Well beyond the dozens of other dictators on this planet who have some kinds of WMD, we HAD to attack and overthrow Saddam because he was just so unpredictable and hated the US so much, that he, more so than any other madman, was ready and willing to use WMD on us ...

2) The night before we invade his country, we use a "hail mary" to try and kill him out of the gates ... We invade his country ... He is either going to die, or be apprehended and brought to a trial that will likely end in his death ... Either way, he is done as the ruler of Iraq, and will never again be a free man ...

3) With all of that, he chooses to not use his WMD, but instead to send them over to Syria ...

I have gone round and round and round with freaks on another board, and they just don't see what is missing in all of that ...

[Evergreen Emerald]

7. I work with a guy who thinks Bush can do no wrong

When I ask him how he can condone what Bush has done he says things like, "he has the terrorists on the run."

When I try to discuss with him the facts, he says that I am just believing the lies. Once he sent me a really mean degrading e-mail about Cindy Sheehan filled with lies and innuendo about abandoning her son when he was a child and not visiting his grave. When I tried to talk facts, he said that I just believe the lies. He asked where I got my information, because it was propaganda. When I asked him when he stopped beating his wife, he did understand what I was trying to say.

He believed the swift-boat liars and does not understand the irony that while they tout supporting the soldiers, they degrade and demean them by questioning whether or not they truly deserve the medals--and ignoring the republicans lack of service (and attempts at avoiding the service).

He is also very religious, yet condones the actions of this administration that are so far away from compassion that it amazes me. And he does not see it. And when I attempt to point it out to him, he just dismisses me: "you are just angry," or "you just hate Bush," while ignoring the facts.

He is blindly following Bush--watches Fox news, and believes that there were WMDs in Iraq. And there is no fact that will sway his opinion. Complete blind lemming.

[Turbineguy]

2. This was the story put out

by Debka File in the run-up to the Iraq war. That and the rented syrian resort for Saddam Hussein's family and the permanent exile compound in Libya. Oh yes, there was also the chemical/biological weapons to be delivered to US targets by the Iraqi airforce.

Debka file is hq'ed in Jerusalem.

[madokie]

4. collusion

[newyorican]

5. Well if we get froggy with Syria...

they will be glad to deliver them, Air-Express, to Tel Aviv.

Afterwhich the whole place will be turned into green glass...

[kenny blankenship]

8. They don't believe it, they just repeat it because it's useful

Syria has WMDs of its own. If we were to invade as per the original plan, we would find plenty of WMDs and an Arab WMD is an Arab WMD, no?
There are people in this sad old world who don't care about the truth of the statements they make unless the untruth of their statements is so obvious that even an MSM reporter would challenge them to provide proof of what they say. Instead of a respect for the truth value of their statements they regard only the use-value of those statements. Iraq sent their vast WMD arsenal to Syria! they cry, not because they've ever seen any evidence that such a thing occured, but because it would mean if true that the illegal invasion of Iraq was not so bad (still illegal, mind you, but mitigated by Hussein's lying) and that the invasion would be "justified" continuing on to that other country to pursue those fleetfooted WMDs. In this 'thinking' the WMDs are being pursued metaphorically like a purse-snatcher running through the streets of a city to evade arrest. To say they were shipped to another country is all some Fascist assholes need to convince themselves that if we were to bomb and invade that other country now, it would merely be our right as global cop, to do what ever is necessary in "hot pursuit" to stop a criminal in the commission of a crime.

[Marblehead]

9. Good point

Makes sense to me...

[Bandit]

10. I think it is because he sent his air force to Iran

There is a huge difference between saving some airplanes and WMDs. The whole purpose supposedly of him having them was to protect his country from attack. Why didn't he protect his country? It is all just smoke up your ass as far as I am concerned. If they had them they would not be so cowed...