Thompson: Iraq Had WMD Before U.S. Invaded

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Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson said today he was certain former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction prior to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, a point of contention in the 4.5 years since the war began.

"We can't forget the fact that although at a particular point in time we never found any WMD down there, he clearly had had WMD. He clearly had had the beginnings of a nuclear program," the former Tennessee senator told an audience of about 60 at a Newton cafe.

The question of whether Saddam had banned chemical and biological weapons, and plans to acquire nuclear weapons, has been the subject of intense debate in light of inspectors' failure to find such evidence since the war began.

Thompson made the statement while explaining why he felt the war was justified, despite the Bush administration's chief justification for the invasion turning out not to be verifiable.

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- jay1975 I'm a Fan of jay1975 4 fans permalink
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How quickly we all forget that Clinton and Gore were touting the threat of Iraq's WMD's all through their term's as President and Vice President. The US ran bombing missions in Iraq all throughout the 90's because of the threat that Clinton and Gore warned us about.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:47 PM on 10/01/2007
- StillAmused I'm a Fan of StillAmused 270 fans permalink

How quickly we forget that neither Clinton nor Gore invaded and occupied Iraq, destabilized the region or are ginning up an attack on Iran. There's a big difference between hard-nosed diplomacy and breaking up all the furniture.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:54 PM on 10/01/2007
- kevenseven I'm a Fan of kevenseven 501 fans permalink
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The US bombed Iraq because they were fool enough to shoot at our No-Fly Zone Air Cap.

How quickly we forget to leave out milk and cookies for Santa.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:59 PM on 10/01/2007

yep, he had them all right and here's who sold him the WMD...
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2038.htm

Well, I'll be damned, it's none other than Rummie himself (with the help of Cheney and Ollie)...hmmm...who knew...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:47 PM on 10/01/2007
- Ping I'm a Fan of Ping 63 fans permalink

Stop it. Apparently you were either not born or too young to remember what happened during the mid to late 80's. Your instance on pinning this on Rumsfeld and Cheney is making you look like an ass. Rumsfeld is in that video yes...but that's about it.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:58 PM on 10/01/2007

WTF?

Who are these 29%'ers who believe this crap? There can't be two different versions of the truth, you brain-dead morons.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:46 PM on 10/01/2007

Haven't you ever heard of Schroedinger's cat?

http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-56656.html

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:24 PM on 10/01/2007
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SteveK,you have to look over Ping he's "special" he can't help it.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:13 AM on 10/02/2007
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Fred saw the photo of Iraqs WMD's
http://www.oilwars.com/WMD.html

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:36 PM on 10/01/2007
- unclebucky I'm a Fan of unclebucky 70 fans permalink

Now.

If the trend continues to have clever trevors behind the curtains and smoke and mirrors in front of the people, then we get what we vote for.

* Reagan the blatherer
* Bush the vomiter
* Bush the decider
* Thompson the stupid

Ugh.

--UB.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:36 PM on 10/01/2007

Thompson's started his campaign a little late folks, he's trying to catch up to everyone.

Tomorrow the Senator will be discussing how Saddam was responsible for 9/11, and Valerie Plame was not a CIA operative.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:35 PM on 10/01/2007
- unclebucky I'm a Fan of unclebucky 70 fans permalink

Hey!

He said "he was certain" former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction prior to the 2003 Invasion, not that "Iraq Had WMD Before U.S. Invaded."

Now, I would be happy if he had stupidly said the latter, but he didn't. The headline would've been better written: "Thompson certain Iraq had WMD before U.S. Invasion", cause then we could get our claws into this.

I think Thompson is a dud among duds, but let's be sure that we flavour the teaser the way it should be on the top page.

Ugh.

--UB.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:33 PM on 10/01/2007
- Gary47 I'm a Fan of Gary47 15 fans permalink

Yeah right, like Bush had a great command of the English language before he became president.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:32 PM on 10/01/2007

Is it me or does Freddie boy sound like he really needs a script when he speaks. Life gets tougher outside "Law & Order."

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:33 PM on 10/01/2007
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Fred knows about them thar WMD's - he saw them here
http://www.oilwars.com/WMD.html

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:30 PM on 10/01/2007

The only W M Ds he saw was when his grand baby wife dances around naked.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:51 PM on 10/01/2007
- LIR I'm a Fan of LIR 21 fans permalink

No one cares about his bimbo!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:53 PM on 10/01/2007
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Another fascist nut job - perfect for the Republican Corporate Controlled Party. To quote his daddy, GW "Nope, not there, those WMD's must be somewhere" ha ha - What a dipshit

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:27 PM on 10/01/2007

KEEErist another dips--t running for president??? So far the only one who appears to have a viable brain that hasn't been poluted by stupidity seems to be second on the democratic totem pole! This Thompson has been watching to many of his hero movies. May be even imbibing in some of that movieland funny stuff... Snort, Snort!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:18 PM on 10/01/2007

Fred the pot head what does he know. Jack s**t

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:12 PM on 10/01/2007
- outnow I'm a Fan of outnow 186 fans permalink

Fred Thompson is lying. He must know at least the following:

Leads in the supposed slam-dunk case against Saddam kept losing their bounce. So the administration and the top CIA leadership put increasing faith in an Iraqi defector code-named Curveball, who supposedly had worked as a chemical engineer in Saddam's bioweapons program, and claimed to have seen what could be mobile bioweapons factories mounted on trucks. The defector was in German hands, and was never interviewed by the Americans before the invasion. The Germans had warned that Curveball was making up most of the story. He had never worked in the biological program; he'd been a taxi driver before heading to Germany to seek asylum. There were no mobile labs.

Bush hyped the terrorist threat as a means of winning political support, and talked of the war as an clear and present danger to the very existence of the United States.

The aluminum tubes were known to be not the type used for enriching uranium, the Yellow Cake plutonium documents were forgeries, and the Prague meeting with Atta never happened.

This just goes to show how totally dishonest the fear-mongering Republicans are. If they get elected, truth will be overtaken by propaganda and secret government.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:10 PM on 10/01/2007
- Birdman I'm a Fan of Birdman 37 fans permalink

Now that is pretty good Fred, maybe you should pay more attention to reality there were not weapons of mass destruction. Even the president has finally relented on this fantasy. You may also want to make a note things broadcast on Fox News should be taken with a gtain of salt they tend to embelish or change the news to fit their limmited perception of reality.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:08 PM on 10/01/2007
- atomic I'm a Fan of atomic 68 fans permalink
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THIS IS THE REAL AMERICA WHERE THE GLOBAL CORPORATE BANKING ELITE RUN THIS COUNTRY AND THE WORLD.

This has been the drive of the global elite since the beginning of time. The elite have never been concerned for the masses other than as a market or as military protection and as killing machines. They create war to increase profits and do business with both sides during the bloodshed. They exist outside the law and make their own rules. They manipulate markets and media to their bennifit and will crush anything or anyone who dares confront them.

In recent terms they are using false flag terror attacks to insight fear and shut down dissent while they propagate false wars for resource and dominance and shred our constitution which they see as a lousy piece of meaningless paper. They have in place an administration and a GOP willing to side step their actual duties to America and to push their illegal agenda through intimidation and all out bribery.

In the last 10 years the global elite have accelerated plans based on the dwindling world oil supply known as (Peak Oil). This is a multi-pronged strategy designed to reduce world populations, consolidate resources and wealth, and to acquire unstoppable power enforced by elite private armies not beholden to creed or constitution from any nation. It is inevitable that terrorism will result from their actions. They have preempted this by staging terror events such as 911 and 7/7 London, as a pretext to their plans allowing them to destroy liberties and begin spying and categorizing the populations.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:08 PM on 10/01/2007
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