H-Man. Why DON'T you discuss the "bulk of the Kay report...factually and in context?"
Tell us about the great danger he posed. Imagine, if you will, what that mushroom cloud would have looked like. Imagine what those remote controlled gliders would have done to all of us unsuspecting Americans as they launched off the Iraqi navy ships and sprayed all of those planned-for-the-future chemical or biological agents on us. In your mind's eye see the horribly disfigured faces and bodies of all the little children in the overfilled hospitals. Imagine the glee of Saddam as he sat safely in his Iraqi stronghold and fired off his AK 47 in celebration. Imagine-----Oh, wait. HELL NO, THAT COULDN'T HAPPEN.
Reality is such a bummer. First, he was presiding over a bankrupt government that had been so damaged by sanctions that the infrastructure was corroded to the point of near collapse. Second, his technology was nowhere nearly capable of such advances anytime in the near future. Third, he had no unmanned airplane program that was anymore than a remote controlled toy airplane. Next, he had no navy. Next, the CIA had concluded that he not only did not want to hit the U.S., he didn't even want to help any terrorists that wanted to hit the U.S. because (pay attention here) he wasn't crazy enough to bring the full power of the U.S. military down on his head. You see, there was no "Iraqi stronghold" and he knew it.
But hey, if you want to overplay the small amount of threat that was Saddam in 2001, don't let me stop you. After all, there had to be some people that inspired the chicken little, sky-is-falling story, and there has to be some reason for all those unlived lives we're wasting in Iraq along with those hundreds of billions of dollars. |
