If the weapons exist, where are they?
good question, since the UN didn't do their job the first time, Iraq has had plenty of time to hide them. I bet the inspectors aren't checking housing blocks, that's where I'd hide them if I knew they would only check factories and warehouses. But the there are hints that the U.S. has an idea.
If we provided those weapons to Iraq, then we should be able to help him account for them.
Which US defense contractor makes SCUDS? I forgot.....I would start with the first assumption that we provided any weapons that he may still have. It isn't like Saddam would just be sitting on mounds and mounds of US made weapons after a couple of wars. So that is the first bad assumption. The second is that, even if we had provided the weapons, why would we know where they are after 10+ years?
Most of all, I'm not an advocate of cowboy diplomacy. nor am I, but nor am I one to support pretending to be nicey nice when I am threatened. And if I am being threatened, I strongly support *eliminating* that threat. That isn't diplomacy, cowboy or otherwise. That is survival.
Given all that's happened of late, if Iraq had WDM why haven't they used them?
Maybe it takes a while to dismantle them, then smuggle them into the U.S. and then reassemble them and then deploy them. Or, maybe the right opportunity hasn't otherwise presented itself...or maybe they really don't have anything.
When was the last time they did, and why? Who'd they use them against?
I guess you forgot when they used nerve gas on their own people. |
