WMD's in Iraq

I have always had a hunch that Saddam either moved weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) or destroyed them before we got there. There's evidence that the weapons were moved. Here, Here, and Here. What bothers me is that these allegations seem to have been swept under the carpet. If it can be proved that Saddam had WMDs, it would be a major coup for the Bush administration and the Republican party at large. Besides WMDs, it's not like Saddam; gassed his own people, supported and financed terrorism, plotted terrorist attacks against American targets, or fired upon our fighter jets enforcing the UN's no fly zone that was agreed upon after the first Gulf War, or even had Bill Clinton saying he was a threat.

What I think might happen is that over the next few months up to two years, if President Bush can prove, without a doubt, that Saddam had WMDs, it would be over for the Democratic party. There would be no way that they could backtrack with all the statements that they've made over the past few years about how we're invading a country that didn't do anything wrong, or how they weren't a threat.

While I don't agree with everything that President Bush says or does, I must say that it's extremely refreshing to see a politician say "that's enough" and actually carry through with a promise to actually do something about an ongoing problem. I believe that if we truly want to find WMDs we need to send in CIA ops to each of these countries and find out what happened. I find it VERY difficult to believe that just about every intelligence agency, including foreign ones, were all completely wrong. If you want to know the truth, offer to take the death penalty off the table for Saddam. Let him know that if he's found guilty of the crimes he's accused of and sentenced to death, we'll turn him loose on the very people he brutalized for all those years. It's a very scary thing to be lynch mobbed to death. It's a long, slow, painful way to die. Saddam has said in the past that he would rather be in custody of Americans then his own people. If you offer that, I think he can be pursuaded to tell the truth on what happened to the weapons.

Travis