Quote Originally Posted by OneGuy67 View Post
Where were those WMD's? All reports indicate they did not, interviews with Saddam indicate he stated those things to bluff his enemies, nothing concrete has been found. Saddam didn't win a war with Iran; he fought one to a stale mate. There was no land gained by either side. He WAS afraid to go after other countries; he didn't invade Turkey, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, all of which have sizeable armies. He invaded Kuwait, a very small country with no military to speak of, to show power to his people. The military didn't truly support him, and many laid down their weapons, left their barracks, and plain old didn't want to fight when we rolled in.
The reports you saw didn't say there were WMDs. Shockingly (sarcasm), the MSM didn't report them.
Entire Kurdish villages were wiped out with chemical weapons (Halabja Massacre, Anfal Genocide, etc.) by Saddam's regime. Used mustard gas, hydrogen cyanide, sarin, GA (volatile nerve agent), and VX (one of the deadliest chem weapons ever). The coalition troops found numerous NBC manufacturing facilities, including a mobile centrifuge for processing nuclear materials. Even the UN put out resolutions for Saddam's regime to give up his cache of WMDs and cease all further manufacturing, which, surprise, went unheeded.
Would the UN do that if they didn't have them?
How did he use chemical weapons to commit a genocide against the Kurds if he didn't have them?
Why did he have so many manufacturing facilities if he didn't use them?
Don't believe everything you hear from the MSM.