Why have Democrats in the past flip flopped on WMD's?

Question

A lot of this is in 1998, before Bush even took office.

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Answer 1

Because that predates Hans Blix and his UN weapons inspectors finding that Saddam no longer had stockpiles or an active program. But this was known before the 2003 invasion.

Answer 2

My Answer:  Because Saddam did an increadible job of convincing the world that he had WMD's, including his own generals.  You can't trust the guy, but what do you do when he says one thing to his own people and another to the world? Democrats were fooled just like everyone else.

My rant:

After six months searching for WMD, the ISG issued an Interim Progress Report on 3 October 2003. The team said it had found evidence of "WMD-related program activities" but no actual chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.  

However, remember before the war they were not allowed to inspect many sights and had to notify way in advance before inspecting a sight.

Like I said Saddam did an increadible job of convincing the world that he had WMD's, history will tell the true store eventually.  For now, there was not enough WMD's to go to war over but how long do you play a political dance with someone like Saddam? Either way, Saddam violated enough UN-sanctions and/or treaties to justify going to war, but the UN is full of corrupt wimps.  Thank God, the U.S.A. is a brave and nobal county.  It's unfortunate that it was handled so poorly.  Because now we have a leader in Iran, saying he "doesn't" have any WMD's and he's just wants to make energy.  The country has a ton of oil for energy, why go nuculear?

For Agesilus (or should I say un-educated Bush hater):

U.S. Chinese relationship now is one of co-dependence, we borrow money from them and we buy their goods.  If we stop buying goods we can't borrow any more money and vice-versa.  We keep their economy going and they keep ours going, interest rates are low so this is the best time to borrow money.  Think of this as a way to keep peace with one of the few countries that would kick our *** if we were at war.

I don't know where in Texas you were or at what time you are talking about but there was no recession and never has been one in Texas.  When you say no jobs except for the rich, or do you mean except for the educated?

Big business is not a bad thing, it provides jobs, benefits (including health care) and wealth for it's investors.  When it get's too big or has a monopoly that's when it get bad.  For the record, I would consider the oil companies are the closest thing we have as a monopoly and technically by definition they are not.

I am enjoying the Olympics and I think it's great what China is doing.  In the history books Bush will fall somewhere in the middle as far as presidents go, it's too bad he got kind of wimpy like his dad.

Answer 3

The only WMD is Bush! Ever notice that the Communists Chinese love George Bush more than most Americans and wonder why? The answer is simple when Bush was governor of Texas he only had big business in mind and he drove texas into major debt and recession there were no jobs anywhere in the state except for the rich. The poverty level was at a all time high. Then the Right wing elected him as president and he promptly did the same thing to America. This made China the richest country in the world. Where do you think they got the money to build all those new stadiums for this olympics. Simple You ever heard of the national debt is up to about what 9 trillion dollars. Well we owe the bulk of that debt to Communist China. So I hope everyone is enjoying the Olympic games because we financed the entire thing even building all the buildings.That is why the Communists Chinese Love Bush because he is an idiot and the worse president in history!