Boo Radley
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So now I'm told "we didn't help the Kurds". Where did I ever comment about our involvement with the Kurds? Fact, Saddam used weapons of mass destruction to massacre his own people. I'm sure we "pretty well" didn't think he would do that.
I'm sorry, but I haven't been around Debate Politics that long. Perhaps it's always been part of the landscape here, but it seems to me there is some disconnect from reality that is going on.
I can appreciate that one "camp" has as part of it's ideology a requirment to reject any and all ideas that go against the party line, but facts are facts.
To try and suggest the IAEA and the UN knew there we no WMD's in Iraq is folly.
You're seeing the wrong point. You bought up the Kurds, so context must be established. If killing the Kurds is the cncenr, which it wasn't, than we'd have done something to help them.
Nor have I made the affirmative and absolute claim that there were NO wmds. Instead, my claim is that there was no evidence of a growing program and that Saddam was actively creating wmds, which was the rationale for war.