POLL: Most Republicans Still Believe That Iraq Had WMD

Mercor · Sep 25, 2012

Quote from L-Kabong:

The difference is that Clinton didn't press to invade Iraq, He pressed to maintain a no fly zone.

Clinton never had a plan after Gulf war one.
He sat our troops in Saudi Arabia for 8 years. pinned in a quagmire, playing games with Saddam.

It was a direct cause for 9/11. Osama Bin stated it was American troops on the soil of the country with Mecca that was the main cause for 9/11.

Mercor · Sep 25, 2012

Quote from stoic:

On 16 March 1988, the Kurdish town of Halabja was attacked with a mix of mustard gas and nerve agents, killing 5,000 civilians, and maiming, disfiguring, or seriously debilitating 10,000 more. The attack occurred in conjunction with the 1988 al-Anfal campaign designed to reassert central control of the mostly Kurdish population of areas of northern Iraq and defeat the Kurdish peshmerga rebel forces. It is estimated that 1.1 to 2.1 million deaths resulted from the al-Anfal campaign. Saddam ordered the attack to terrorize the Kurdish population in northern Iraq. The bloody eight-year war ended in a stalemate.

During the Iraq- Iran war, Iraq used chemical weapons against Iranian forces fighting on the southern front.

A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans (and other life forms) and/or cause great damage to man-made structures (e.g. buildings), natural structures (e.g. mountains), or the biosphere in general. The scope and application of the term has evolved and been disputed, often signifying more politically than technically. Coined in reference to aerial bombing with chemical explosives, it has come to distinguish large-scale weaponry of other technologies, such as chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear. This differentiates the term from more technical ones such as chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons (CBRN).

Pretty good evidence. We rest our case.

peilthetraveler · Sep 25, 2012

Just think...if Clinton had got Bin Laden in 1998 when he had the chance, like a good republican would have, There would be no war on terror, we never would've went to Afghanistan, there would be no Dept. of homeland security, We would not get groped in airports by TSA agents, nobody would've died on 9/11, and there is a good possibility that we wouldnt have had the financial crisis as interest rates would not have been lowered so much to get people spending.

Thats ALL on Clinton.

PHOENIX TRADING · Sep 26, 2012

Quote from Free Thinker:

"Without a shred of verifiable and falsifiable evidence to the contrary, 50% of the republicans don't believe that President Obama was born in the US less than 50 years ago.
And yet, those same people are certain that 2000 years ago someone called jesus was born in of a virgin in the Middle East, did miracles, died on the cross and resurrected to heaven without a shred of verifiable and falsifiable evidence to support this."

Tell you what you keep your messiah ,I'll keep mine, and we will see who wins in the end.

PHOENIX TRADING · Sep 26, 2012

Quote from Free Thinker:

"Without a shred of verifiable and falsifiable evidence to the contrary, 50% of the republicans don't believe that President Obama was born in the US less than 50 years ago.

You might have a point if he behaved liked he was a US citizen.
Since he doesn't , the location of his spawning is moot.

tradingjournals · Sep 26, 2012

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/06/21/504201/poll-republicans-iraq-wmd/

POLL: Most Republicans Still Believe That Iraq Had WMD

A new poll conducted by Dartmouth government professor Benjamin Valentino found that 63 percent of Republican respondents still believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the United States invaded in 2003, even though this assertion has been thoroughly debunked. In comparison, only 27 percent of independents and less than 15 percent of Democrats believed in the misinformation. Additionally, 64 percent of Republican respondents believe that President Obama was born in another country. As the Huffington Postâs Dan Froomkin notes, âthis latest poll result seems to indicate a refusal â unique to the modern Republican Party â to acknowledge facts.â

The question is why do they believe something that does not exist? An answer is that the media makes them believe that. In order to know who is doing the misleading, you just need to find out who controls the media, and who benefits from the misleading? The republicans do not benefit from it, and the democrat are hurt by it. So both parties cannot be the source of the misleading.

Let us refer to what is behind the misleading by X. The iraq war showed that:
Peace + X = War.
To get peace out of war short X in above equation: Peace= War-X.

You know what is X. If you do not known, then...

RCG Trader · Sep 26, 2012

Quote from stoic:

On 16 March 1988, the Kurdish town of Halabja was attacked with a mix of mustard gas and nerve agents, killing 5,000 civilians, and maiming, disfiguring, or seriously debilitating 10,000 more. The attack occurred in conjunction with the 1988 al-Anfal campaign designed to reassert central control of the mostly Kurdish population of areas of northern Iraq and defeat the Kurdish peshmerga rebel forces. It is estimated that 1.1 to 2.1 million deaths resulted from the al-Anfal campaign. Saddam ordered the attack to terrorize the Kurdish population in northern Iraq. The bloody eight-year war ended in a stalemate.

During the Iraq- Iran war, Iraq used chemical weapons against Iranian forces fighting on the southern front.

A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans (and other life forms) and/or cause great damage to man-made structures (e.g. buildings), natural structures (e.g. mountains), or the biosphere in general. The scope and application of the term has evolved and been disputed, often signifying more politically than technically. Coined in reference to aerial bombing with chemical explosives, it has come to distinguish large-scale weaponry of other technologies, such as chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear. This differentiates the term from more technical ones such as chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons (CBRN).

so, um, where did Iraq get these things from?

Answer, Indiana.

RCG Trader · Sep 26, 2012

Quote from tradingjournals:

The question is why do they believe something that does not exist? An answer is that the media makes them believe that. In order to know who is doing the misleading, you just need to find out who controls the media, and who benefits from the misleading? The republicans do not benefit from it, and the democrat are hurt by it. So both parties cannot be the source of the misleading.

Let us refer to what is behind the misleading by X. The iraq war showed that:
Peace + X = War.
To get peace out of war short X in above equation: Peace= War-X.

You know what is X. If you do not known, then...

Oh, no!

Have you been bitten too, TJ?

L-Kabong · Sep 26, 2012

Quote from BSAM:

Exsqueeze me, brother Bong, but where did you get that number?

My estimate of deaths + debilitating physical injuries + PSTD victims.

stoic · Sep 26, 2012

Quote from RCG Trader:

so, um, where did Iraq get these things from?

Answer, Indiana.

and your point is...????