# Bush Insists Iraq Weapons Will Be Found **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 10, 2003, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-insists-iraq-weapons-will-be-found/180864 "2003-06-10T14:21:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qazzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@Qazzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qazzz)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-insists-iraq-weapons-will-be-found/180864/1 "2003-06-10T14:21:57Z")
I hate him. I hate him. Really, is ANYONE intending on voting for him for president again? Hmmmm I know! Let’s print up in a few newspapers “Iraqi Weapons Found” and then take a favorability poll in the middle of Texas, Idaho, and South Dakota and brag about the results! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-insists-iraq-weapons-will-be-found/180864/2 "2003-06-10T16:08:33Z")
Really, does ANYONE believe Saddam didn’t have banned weapons? * * * Fagjunk Theology: Not just for sodomite propagandists anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-insists-iraq-weapons-will-be-found/180864/3 "2003-06-10T16:14:06Z")
Hmmm… I guess he got a little ahead of himself in Poland, where he claimed they DID find WMD. Now that event, which used to be in the past, is in the future. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-insists-iraq-weapons-will-be-found/180864/4 "2003-06-10T16:33:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Apos \* > \*\*Hmmm… I guess he got a little ahead of himself in Poland \*\* I think you may have the wrong warlike imperialist who got into power by abusing the electoral system… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-insists-iraq-weapons-will-be-found/180864/5 "2003-06-11T12:26:26Z")
But there has been a subtle shift. Note the recent speech, insisting that Saddam had a weapons program. What constitutes a weapons program? Any document that discusses how such weapons might be made, regardless whether or not there is any evidence that they had been made. Everyone in Iraq with an IQ above cottage cheese knows how to make the Occupying Powers smile upon them: come up with a document. It won’t be examined too rigourously. A couple hours on the net, a bit of formatting and there you have it: a weapons program. Note also that the previous weapons hunting team has been withdrawn, to be replaced with a new weapons team, the new! improved! weapons team that apparently wasn’t previously available. Not, of course, a UN team, whose reliability and impartiality are suspect. And they will get away with it. God help us, we are stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Aro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Aro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aro)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-insists-iraq-weapons-will-be-found/180864/6 "2003-06-11T12:45:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elucidator \* > \*\*And they will get away with it. God help us, we are stupid. \*\* What’s the answer to this? How do you make people see whats really going on, especially if they tend to want to agree with it all? [Blix stung by ‘Pentagon smear’](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2980332.stm). > [@](#): > > The UN chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, has lashed out at the US Defence Department, saying some “bastards” in Washington tried to undermine him in the run-up to the Iraq war. > \ > Last week Mr Blix criticised the quality of the US and UK intelligence given to him on alleged Iraqi WMD, saying his inspectors had found nothing after acting on tip-offs. [Iraq weapons: Where does the buck stop?](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2978666.stm) [Saddam uncertainty ‘fuelling resistance’](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2977114.stm) > [@](#): > > Mr Rumsfeld again defended US intelligence on Iraq before the war. He said it “will end up proving to be correct”. And he insisted that any allegation that the intelligence was politicised was false. Rumsfeld has changed his tact again, by the looks of it. ---
**Author:** ![elfje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elfje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfje)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-insists-iraq-weapons-will-be-found/180864/7 "2003-06-11T12:46:04Z")
well, this article here says the American troops said themselves that they are running out of places to look. Must be worrying for the Bush administration, to say the least… [http://www.unison.ie/irish\_independent/stories.php3?ca=33&si=990013&issue\_id=9320](http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=33&si=990013&issue_id=9320) "On the other side of the Atlantic the Bush Administration was also under attack as American troops - after visiting 230 sites - said they had run out of new places to check for Iraq’s alleged arsenal of chemical weapons. This latest dead-end will only increase pressure in America for a full Congressional investigation into what critics say is a massive US intelligence failure. Yesterday John McCain, the Republican senator from Arizona - a strong supporter of the war - added his voice to the chorus of demands. “It doesn’t appear there are any more targets at this time,” a US military commander in Baghdad said, expressing the frustration at a hunt that has been under way since American and British forces entered Iraq on 20 March, but which has yielded only the capture of two possible mobile biological weapons laboratories. Some experts are questioning whether the trailers were part of Saddam’s suspected WMD programme at all. " what’s the expression I’m looking for? Ah yes: the plot thickens…