As most of the posters here understand, it’s not the facts (nor the spelling, punctuation, and grammar) that matter so much as having it both ways. In this case, Thompson’s implying that the WMDs Hussein used to kill 100,000 Kurds and 50,000 Iranians were real. We can’t let him get away with that immoral view, just as we can’t let people think that the 500-or-so canisters of WMD materials we’ve recovered since the invasion suggest that Hussein had WMDs.

As long as Thompson argues that there were WMDs, we need to maintain that the “slaughters” of the Kurds and Iranians were faked. They were staged by the same people who faked the moon landing and who organized the inside-job conspiracy of 10,000-strong to destroy the World Trade Center.

If you doubt the effectiveness of the Jewish cabal that controls the world, consider this: They’re deviously savvy enough to know that the best way to get us to invade Iraq was to use not one Iraqi as a “hijacker.”

If you still doubt the effectiveness of this Jewish cabal, consider THIS: Not one person involved in any of these conspiracies — from the moon landing, to the “massacres” in Iraq, to the “attack” on the World Trade Center — has ever come forward. Be afraid.

Sadam had the potential to create WMDs... so do most countries... It isn't as hard as you all make it out to be... you can make mustard gas in fairly large quantities out of your home... get over it... WMDs are a smoke screen for the real issues. The fact that we say WMDs is sad in itself. What is a weapon of mass destruction? Is the fertilizer bomb that took out the federal building a WMD?

The question should be, why we slapped Iraq for WMDs but not Korea. Kimmy over there in N. Korea is a lunatic and doesn't even let his people travel. They are completely locked off from the outside world. Even Iraqis didn't have to worry about that.

Please just address the fact that there was no reason to attack Iraq other than oil. Korea, Darfur, Burma, ethiopia... places where the people are truly suffering don't have anything to offer... so why help them? This seems to be the mentality of America... which is sad.

tom, clearly you have never served in our country's military. and if you have, you have obviously never been deployed in combat. you speak of war as if it is a necessity, and to some extent it is. i'm certainly not deluding myself enough that i think war is avoidable, but to insinuate (well, not really isinuate – explicitly state) that our biggest mistake was getting out of vietnam indicates a lack of understanding exemplary of someone who gains all his knowledge from second-hand sources. to compare the iraq war to WWII doesn't display a lack of understanding, it displays a lack of intelligence and capability for critical thinking. do you really think our situation with islamic extremism is comparable to nazi fascism? hitler was the leader of an independent state, with a national economy and a world-class military at his disposal. he was a madman clearly bent on world domination. he was responsible for the deaths of millions upon untold millions. at best, the leaders of islamic extremism have loose confederations of ill-equipped, angry young men, spread across the globe. at times, these angry young men are capable of devastating destruction (9/11, madrid), but are they capable of blitzkrieg and overrunning and entire continent in a few short months? absolutely not. the "war on terror" will not be solved with a war, because terror is not a nation-state or an individual that can be killed or crippled to the point of incapacity. it's an idea that anyone can grab onto, be it islamic extremist or your next-door neighbor who has finally had enough of his crummy job and goes postal. your assertion that war is necessary to stamp out islamic extremism is totally off-base.

as to your "understanding" of middle eastern history, i don't know what to make of that. apparently, you have been reading some pretty creative text books. saddam did not assassinate the president of iraq in a coup. the baathist party had already been in power for several years when the president abdicated due to health problems. those health problems probably weren't actually health problems, but he certainly wasn't assassinated. and your claim that the middle east was all friendly democracies is ridiculous as well. those "democracies" were at best puppet governments installed by western powers that had controlled the region until then. you are right about one thing: saddam did have weapons of mass distruction and he did use them on the kurds and in the iran/iraq war of the 1980s. but if you're so adamant that we should fighting a war over there, why are you not outraged that we sat by for an entire decade (1990s)and did nothing to depose this evil madman and his vast arsenal of weapons of mass distruction? perhaps it's because you know like every other rational, critically-thinking person in this country that saddam and iraq has never and would have never been a threat to the united states. cruel dictator? yes. evil madman? yes. capable of world domination or even harm to the united states? not in a thousand years. we are fighting an insurgency in iraq because we created it by invading iraq. and if you think that staying is justified by the suffering it would cause if we left, then again, why are you not outraged by the brutal and violent crackdown against democracy in myanmar? why are you not passionately advocating that we intervene in darfur, where hundreds of thousands of people have been systematically killed?

i realize that your closed mind will dismiss every one of my arguments, but deep down, i think you know that you know nothing. wake up, tom. start thinking for yourself. your mindless reactions are tearing this country apart.

Vote for the one Republican that is willing to get us out of there right now!

VOTE RON PAUL 08!

Sounds like Fred wants the Bush "old boy" election machine to back his ill founded campaign to me.

I at one point actually thought of looking at Fred seriously.. Now I know I was seriously wrong for even considering him.

The worst part of all of this crap is that Fred's comments already show how the Republicans are going to play this election. They need to get off their butts and realize what America needs and how America should be. The entire has lost it's mind (and Fred is the current example).

WE didn't look for them...British Intelligence ALREADY DID THAT! The former head of MI6 went there and LOOKED and published a report saying they were moved to SYRIA...Saddam KNEW we were coming because of the idiot reportors broadcasting internationally about the USA's PLANS. The former head went back to England and told MI6 that they had all been moved becuase Saddom knew we were coming!

So STOP railing on Fred. He's right. You're wrong. Get over it. NOW!

I dont think grampa is playing with a full deck here. He admits that we didnt find any WMD and then he goes on to say he CLEARLY hadh had WMD. Well there is nothing clear about it. He is like a little kid. Just because you say something over and over again doesnt make it true. The problem here is that Gramps may actually start to beleive it

Maybe he doesn't read anything but scripts??

Man this guy is really out of touch.

Turned out Saddam spent the money on the Mother of All Parties instead.

Your statement is factual like the factual statement "The United States had slaves." The question is whether that is relevant at the present time, namely in regards to the questions of whether or not Bush was justified in invading and reducing Iraq to a sea of blood. The answer to that question as has been demonstrated time and yet again is quite cleary "NO."

"Time will tell" is a justification for total war, thousands upon thousands of ended and displaced lives, terrorized and traumatized Iraqi children, depletion and betrayal of American troops, and an increase of instability worldwide? Now I have heard it all.

Conservatives do not have to convince the rest of us that we must fight terrorism. Islamofascism is quite clearly a threat...but what does that have to do with Saddam? Too bad instead of confronting countries at the forefront of this threat – like Iran and Saudi Arabia – Bush instead chose to plunge America into decades of moral and economic debt by his ill-advised and deceitful misadventure in Iraq.

Shame on Bush-voting Republicans!