US Iraq Weapons Quotes ( AP)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/9852382.htm (Free subscription)

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"There was a risk, a real risk, that Saddam Hussein would pass weapons or materials or information to terrorist networks. In the world after September 11, that was a risk we could not afford to take." - President Bush in a speech in Wilkes Barre, Pa.

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"Had we had a few months more we would have been able to tell both the CIA and others that there were no weapons of mass destruction (at) all the sites that they had given to us." - Former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix.

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"I think what it will show is that this is a far more complicated situation than many people thought. And just as I have had to accept that the evidence now is there were no stockpiles of actual weapons ready to be deployed, I hope others have the honesty to accept that the report also shows that sanctions weren't working." - British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

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"The administration would like the American public to believe that Saddam's intention to build a weapons program, regardless of actual weapons or the capability to produce weapons, justified invading Iraq. Unfortunately, there is no way to spin the fact that we have occupied Iraq now for 18 months and no WMD have been found. In short, we invaded a country, thousands of people have died, and Iraq never posed a grave or growing danger." - Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.

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"I'm concerned that the politics of the moment are overshadowing some important facts. Short memories don't erase reality, and political platitudes don't excuse Hussein's brutality, menacing ambition or threat to the region and the world." - Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.

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"The Duelfer report is yet another example that there really are two Americas. There's the one that exists in the Bush fantasy world, and then there's the Real America." - Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif.

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"We didn't have to find plans or weapons to see what happened when Saddam Hussein used chemical and biological weapons on his own people. So just because we can't find them and Saddam Hussein had 12 years to hide them doesn't mean he didn't have them and didn't use them." - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.

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The report showed there is "no evidence whatsoever of the threats we were warned about." - Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill.

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[Alpharetta]

1. those quoes are the whole debate in a nutshell

That's the whole debate in a nutshell.

Republicans know Bush misled us. But they believe it was for our own good because 9/11, 9/11, Saddam was scary, ignore Korea Iran Pakistan and Al Qaeda, 9/11 changed everything god I'm so scared I just want a big strong man like Dubya to hold me. Just hold me daddy.

[bigbubbabill]

2. This stuff gives me a headache sometimes!

[classof56]

4. Welcome to DU!

My advice: Keep lots of pain-killers on hand. It won't get much better in these parts (i.e., the US of A) until Bush and crowd are out of office. Let us pray that will happen come January. If it doesn't, get ready to buy those pills in the large economy size. 'Cause things will get a whole...lot...worse!

DEFEAT BUSH!

[sandnsea]

6. "hold me daddy"

Now I can see a whole bunch of DUers running away with that one! It's the exact truth of the matter too, in so many ways!

[G_j]

3. It is amazing how shabby their treatment of Blix was

an honest, honorable man trying to do his job.

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here are some more quotes from Blix,

Blix stated on BBC TV's Breakfast With Frost (February 8, 2004):

"It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it."

Another quote from BBC World

"It's sort of puzzling, I think, that you can have 100 per cent certainty about the weapons of mass destruction's existence, and zero certainty about where they are."

Blix stated in the Guardian (June 11, 2003):

"I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media."

"There are people in who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East River ...and other crude things."
<1> (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3118462.stm) -- Sarcastic reference to the British and American governments' insistence that there are WMD in Iraq after Blix had already concluded and reported there was nothing to be found.

on "spin and hype" (09/18/2003)
"In the Middle Ages when people were convinced there were witches they certainly found them. This is a bit risky."

"We know advertisers will advertise a refrigerator in terms that we don't quite believe in, but we expect governments to be more serious and have more credibility."





http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Hans_Blix

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. I love that Middle Ages quote...

I really feel for Blix and regret he was treated so poorly by people pretending to represent America.

[G_j]

7. one more example of how

they will try to smear anyone who bears a message they don't like.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

8. They're making Nixon look like Ghandi.

[ladybugg33]

9. Plus the quote from Scott Ritter today is VERY important

In sum, he said that Bush using the statement by Duelfer that if the sanctions would be lifted, Saddam intended to pursue WMD programs was nothing more than a political cover statement put out there to help the administration save face. Ritter said that Duelfer had no evidence to support this SPECULATION and was just leaving a political opening for Bush. It just doesn't fly with Scott.

[MisterP]

10. well, as the saying goes, "By mixing a little truth with their lies,

they made their lie all the stronger." One half reality, as confirmed by Blix, Ritter, Kay, whatever, to give them "credibility," one half pod-person B.S.
Nice find.