Colin, I think you are correct here... without WMD, the US will look (in the region) like even more of a bully than they already think... and there probably will be no end to the crap at the UN any time in the future when the US wants to get something done...
WMD are the reason for the war - without them, Saddam was "right", the UN was "right", and (shudder) France was "right".
It won't be enough, I don't think, to say "he had them once 10+ years ago"... without proof of current weapons, well...
I am hoping that the reported find this morning will be the start of a nice run of chemical discoveries... that will put the minds of everyone more at ease.
JR: I posted a simple question, Slavdogg said I was "manipulating he truth", so I asked what was wrong with the question. Your answer had little or no bearing on that, rather it was a long winded attempt to make me look anti-american and to belittle my attempt to raise a valid point. The orignal question was:
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What happens if the US (and it's coalition of the willing) take over Iraq, and after extensive study, don't find anything more than the Al samud missles (which go 15 miles futher than they were suppose to...) and a few old chemical shells, long out of use?
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Your reply was a justification for war statement... that wasn't the question, now was it? I know there were chemical weapons in the past, I know there were chemical shells in the past, I know that almost any rocket propelled weapon can "be modified" to fly further (by putting in a larger solid rocket motor). All of those are statements of why the US went to war... but doesn't explain what is wrong with the question. The question states that the missles could travel to far (slightly, based on the motors in them), and that shells had been found (a dozen, I think it was, all in a warehouse under a bunch of dust).
your off to the races, trying to explain WHY the US went to war. We all know why. That isn't a question. The question is:
What if the assumptions for going to war were wrong, and there are no WMD found?
Alex