Saddam did have WMD when we invaded Iraq!

[Archae]

Oliver North says so!

Fox News host Oliver North revived the discredited claim that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction to justify the American-led invasion of that country 10 years ago.

During an America's Newsroom segment on the 10-year anniversary of the Iraq war, North explained why he thought the war was "worth it," saying: "We got rid of a brutal despot who used chemical and biological weapons against his own people. Weapons of mass destruction that he probably exported to Sudan before we got there."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/03/20/foxs-oliver-north-pushes-long-debunked-wmd-cons/193152

[sadbear]

1. Sudan?

I thought the official right-wing/fox news explanation was a different S-country: Syria.

Is Ollie getting mixed up?

[Aristus]

17. No. He just 'can't recall...'

[Gothmog]

2. Santorum pushed this line and got laughed at.

This lie has been debunked and only an idiot like Ollie North or Rick Santorum would be pushing this type of BS

[onehandle]

3. Saddam should have said something.

Come out and said, 'Please don't invade us. Sudan has the WMDs. Invade them.'

Stupid Saddam.

Clearly, the Iraq war was his fault.

[COLGATE4]

4. Why the hell anyone with an

I.Q. greater than a box of rocks would listen to what this convicted perjurer has to say about anything is beyond me.

[winter is coming]

5. Well, if the Mute Marine says it, it must be so. n/t

[lefty_mcduff]

6. So Saddam's nefarious plot...

...involved stockpiling WMD for years, then sending them to another country when he was actually under attack? Why, that's brilliant!

[Recursion]

7. We know he had chemical weapons because we sold them to him

That was the big lie of "WMD": conflating the possession of some chemical agents with building a nuclear bomb.

[indepat]

8. Ollie, Ollie, Ollie, if so, from whom would Saddam have gotten those chemical and biological

weapons? Wonder what had prompted that infamous Rummy-Saddam handshake?

[SwissTony]

9. On SkyNews (UK) this morning, Baroness Nicholson (LibDem) asserted that Saddam...

had buried WMD in the southern marshlands and had witnesses to prove it.

She claims to have wonderful contacts with the marsh Arabs (and this seems to be true via Google). She also said this 10 years agp. So it should be no problem...

Ten years later...nada, nix. But she still maintains it.

Sorry, no link - it was live TV.

[deutsey]

10. I remember debating (well, arguing, actually) with a guy once

about the missing WMDs and he said this same thing to explain why they were missing.

When I pointed out that we have surveillance satellites that can take a picture of a car's license plate, so why didn't they detect convoys moving the WMDs, he said Saddam had an underground railway system.

The ignorance was deep with that one.

[louis-t]

18. License plate, Hell! They can read the date on a nickel

laying on the sidewalk. At least, that's my favorite line about the state of modern surveillance.

[Politicalboi]

11. Yes, I remember

Seeing on the news men moving huge objects from Saddam's garage to the guy in Sudan's garage.

[baldguy]

12. Sure he did .... in 1990.

[Rider3]

13. Hahahahaaa! Fox News?

My latest bumper sticker: "Is that true or did you hear it on Fox News?"

[Life Long Dem]

14. Did Saddam Hussein Gas His Own People?

No doubt, Saddam has mistreated Kurds during his rule. But it's misleading to say, so simply and without context, that he killed his own people by gassing 5,000 Kurds at Halabja.

The New York Times published an opinion piece by Stephen C. Pelletiere, the CIA's senior political analyst on Iraq during the 1980s.

In the article, Pelletiere said the only thing known for certain was that "Kurds were bombarded with poison gas that day at Halabja. We cannot say with any certainty that Iraqi chemical weapons killed the Kurds."

Pelletiere said the gassing occurred during a battle between Iraqis and Iranians.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1779.htm

[samsingh]

15. let's not forget that it's possible the repugs

sold the wmd to the Iraqi madman in the 1980s.

rumsfield and north were part of that group if I recall

[louis-t]

16. Know which right wing/fox news lie I hate the most?

"he used chemical weapons against his own people"

1. He used chemical weapons against Iran. Iranians are not his own people.

2. He used chemical weapons against the Kurds (Iranian origin) in northern Iraq who have been there for 4,000 years, long before the British invented the country of Iraq.
Again, not his own people.

3. The US government, aka Donny Rumsfeld, Cheeney, Raygun, Bush, et al, sold Saddam the precursors for chemical weapons.

Ollie, the talking points have been discredited for years now. Where you been? Asleep?

[Eugene]

19. WMDs? Coming from a convicted (and pardoned) liar?

Suuure.

[Taverner]

20. Ollie is a treasonous fuck with no morals, ethics or decency

He should be serving time at Angola right now...

[Ernesto]

21. Disgrace to the USMC......... nt

[ljm2002]

22. And of course he fails to mention...

...that the chemical / biological weapons that Saddam is known to have used on his own people, were supplied by none other than the good ol' USofA. But that was back in the day, when he was our friend. At the time it happened, we averted our eyes.

Oliver North, what a scumbag.

[talkingmime]

23. He committed treason. He lied before Congress. He's a war criminal.

Why is he on the air again?