{"id":394,"date":"2010-10-24T19:12:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T00:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/politics\/?p=394"},"modified":"2010-10-24T19:12:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T00:12:29","slug":"wikileaks-proves-iraq-had-wmds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wikileaks-proves-iraq-had-wmds\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikileaks proves Iraq had WMDs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Found this info on HotAir, which mentions specifically the barrels of mustard gas & the mortar rounds full of Sarin and mustard gas<\/a> we found in Iraq in 2004.<\/p>\n

This doesn’t surprise me at all.\u00a0 I mean, the whole world knew Saddam not only had WMDs, but had also used them on his own people<\/a>.\u00a0 At the time of the Iraq invasion, there was plenty<\/a> of evidence<\/a> that WMDs existed<\/a>, but that evidence was buried by the media.\u00a0 So why didn’t the government do a better job of telling us this stuff?\u00a0 Because if there was one thing GW sucked at, it was presenting his case to the public.\u00a0 I distinctly rememberr being highly frustrated with the man and his admin over this point.<\/p>\n

Ed Morrisey wraps up his article with this brilliant observation:<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t exactly vindication of one of the arguments the Bush administration gave for invading Iraq, which was that Hussein had already begun stockpiling new WMDs and was working on nuclear weapons, but it is another vindication of the primary reason for restarting the war: Hussein and Iraq had violated the truce and refused to comply even after 17 UN resolutions demanding compliance. Hussein never had any intention of abiding by the truce, for whatever motivations one wants to assign to him. After the invasion, the US proved (through an armed-version of Wikileaks in Iraq\u2019s diplomatic files) that the UN had allowed Hussein to grab billions in personal wealth by perverting the embargo in the Oil-for-Food Program, which would have given Hussein the means to fuel another WMD program as soon as the West withdrew from Iraq, and to restart Hussein\u2019s dreams of pan-Arab dominance through military adventurism. In the end, there were no good options.<\/p>\n

via Wikileaks documents show WMDs found in Iraq \u00ab Hot Air<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Found this info on HotAir, which mentions specifically the barrels of mustard gas & the mortar rounds full of Sarin and mustard gas we found in Iraq in 2004. This …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,42,31],"tags":[114,278,340,520],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definitive-reading","category-military-matters","category-war-on-terror","tag-bush","tag-iraq","tag-military","tag-wmd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}