US media report forces to stop searching for WMDs in Iraq
19:37 Sunday May 11th 2003
It’s reported that the American forces searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraqi are pulling out. The Washington Post claims that the exploitation task force is dismantling its operations, after it failed to find any biological or chemical weapons. Members of the team told the US newspaper that they no longer expected to find any such weapons, and had found targets identified by Washington to be inaccurate
well, whaddayaknow.
No WMD, huh? American search teams saying they don’t think they’ll find any.
So what was this war about again? Regime change? Oil?
The first would be illegal under Internation Law (but hey, who’s going to punish the US?)
The second would amount to international robbery.
Or does anyone have another theory?
love to hear it.
Here’s the Washington Post article that is referred to in the link from the OP. It does mention that
That said, the war was about WMD and the immediate threat to the US and UK. I don’t see anything that even hints at what this made this threat a realistic one. Perhaps we were lied to
“Very good, rjung, ‘Oil and power’ is the correct answer. Do you want to take the double-or-nothing bonus question?”
“Sure thing!”
“Okay, here’s the first part: 'What members of the Bush Administration lied to the world to get this war going?”
Bzzzt!
“All of them!”
Ding!
“Okay, and the second part: ‘When will the American public rise up in indignation and demand a thorough investigation into this whole fiasco?’”
