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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	Explanation is served up, enjoy the aftertaste
	Date:	9/1/2010 4:02:33 PM

If Iraq was building weapons of mass destruction, why have we never found the factories or the ingredients there? It's a long way from thinking about it and threatening to do it, to actually producing a nuclear weapon. It's not just a matter of obtaining the correct uranium. He would have had to have a willing partner to actually mentor them through the process, like Pakistan and India. One thing Saddam did quite effectively was convince people that he could. But lets for a moment pretend he was -- after the US President said that his country was part of the "Axis of Evil" , wouldn't any sane leader be thinking about protecting his country?

Saddam was hardly the first and only world leader to gas and poison his own people. We have not felt compelled to remove any other leader based on what they did to their own people. Otherwise we would have removed the Chinese leadership long ago, taken over Pakistan and destroyed Turkey.

You may recall the well documented fact that we did had no credible intelligence sources in Iraq at the time most of those quotes were made. They simply were operating on faulty intelligence. You may recall that Clinton dismantled the HUMIT operations by the US in much of the world. Much of the ado about Saddam was strictly political. Politicans say stuff all the time -- doesn't mean it's true. They play to the audience. And some of them had been assured by both the SecState and SecDef that the intelligence was credible.

You haven't proven a thing, MM.