Hi Nadine Carroll; Re: "q, I know that Saddam sent them because it was reported by the Iranians and picked up by the Western Press."
More than that, it was observed by the US.
Let's go over your logic just one more time.
In 1991, when Saddam sent military forces into Iran, it was known to all.
From this you conclude that Saddam sent WMDs into Iran.
I think that your conclusion is one chosen not from logic, but instead from a premise of believing what it is that you want to believe.
The obvious conclusion from the 1991 movement of aircraft into Iran is that if Saddam had moved WMDs into Iran in 2003, it would have been widely reported as a fact. Since it was not, and was instead only reported as supposition, the natural conclusion is that no such movement of WMDs happened. Compare to what you were saying six months ago:
Nadine Carroll, August 3, 2003
You really believe that the Bush administration is so masochistic that they would deliberately make the case on grounds they knew to be false, so they could have an acute political embarrasment on their hands at what should be their moment of triumph? I mean, just think about it. Meanwhile, Danny Kaye is figuring out what state the Iraqi weapons and manufacturing programs really were in. I suspect the cries of "it's all lies" are going to look somewhat more lame in a month or two. #reply-19173624
So what's the truth? I say that if "Danny Kaye" had come up with evidence of WMDs, you'd be trumpeting that fact all over this thread. But with him now saying that there were no WMDs, you, being perfectly partisan, ignore the very statements that only a few months ago you were eager to read.
Kay had plenty of opportunity to review statements by captured Iraqi scientists and soldiers about WMDs. Here's what he has to say now:
David Kay, who stepped down as leader of the U.S. hunt for weapons of mass destruction, said on Friday he does not believe there were any large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in Iraq. "I don't think they existed," Kay told Reuters in a telephone interview. "What everyone was talking about is stockpiles produced after the end of the last (1991) Gulf War (news - web sites) and I don't think there was a large-scale production program in the '90s," he said. #reply-19726803
David Kay is honest, why not you?
-- Carl |
