# Saddam's WMD Have Been Found **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 29, 2004, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-wmd-have-been-found/247612 "2004-05-29T01:16:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zagadka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zagadka/32/7272_2.png) [@Zagadka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zagadka)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-wmd-have-been-found/247612/41 "2004-05-31T04:56:36Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > From the link:Who gets to decide whether Hussein had a need for “so much” (unquantified) pesticide? (And if the WSJ _op ed writer_ is so persuaded that there was too much, why did he not quantify it?) Probably because he is of the same school that believes that Iraq is 100% desert wasteland? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-wmd-have-been-found/247612/42 "2004-05-31T07:40:34Z")
Just to glance at the “documentation” issue: who says the Iraqis are crisp and efficient? Our own military, arguably one of the best in the world, is regularly reporting about stuff they simply cannot find (usually money - _lots_ of money). We weren’t going to believe him anyway. He was going to be invaded, either because he refused to produce documents, or because he produced falsified documents. The verdict had been rendered, the evidence was moot. ---
**Author:** ![iamme99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/57b2e6/32.png) [@iamme99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamme99)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-wmd-have-been-found/247612/43 "2004-05-31T08:26:19Z")
> [@Zagadka](#): > > I would also like to step out and remind people that modern Republicans aren’t exactly known for standing behind the President during times of war. Kosovo and Iraq are similar in many ways - neither posed a direct threat to America, both involved a cruel dictator who attacks his own people, both involve Muslim extremists, both were justified using intelligence largely disputed after the fact. The main difference is who is in office. > > Forgot another biggie - both were fought without UN approval. > > Frequently, the same arguments being used for/against one are the same ones being used for/against the other, just by the opposite people. Kinda funny, in a sad sort of way. Yes, but we didn’t have 800 American dead (so far) in Kosovo. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-wmd-have-been-found/247612/44 "2004-05-31T21:44:41Z")
**hyjyljyj** if you child pulled this sort of stunt, (calling 25% ‘virtually every case’) would you consider that honesty? > [@tomndebb](#): > > From the link:Who gets to decide whether Hussein had a need for “so much” (unquantified) pesticide? (And if the WSJ _op ed writer_ is so persuaded that there was too much, why did he not quantify it?) _"huge warehouses and caches of ‘commercial and agricultural’_ From export. **gov** “[[www.export.gov/iraq/pdf/iraq\_business\_guide\_current.pdf+Iraq+agriculture+“largest+sectors”+"+country’s+economy"+site:export.gov&hl=en](http://www.export.gov/iraq/pdf/iraq_business_guide_current.pdf+Iraq+agriculture+%22largest+sectors%22+%22+country%E2%80%99s+economy%22+site:export.gov&hl=en)]Iraq]([http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:dK9eAUlXIIAJ:](http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:dK9eAUlXIIAJ:)[url) has abundant resources of land and water, which makes agriculture one of the largest sectors of the country’s economy” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-wmd-have-been-found/247612.md?page=2)