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nova9001 t1_j0t1yp6 wrote

Iraq has WMDs was the reason they came up with to invade a sovereign nation.

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TinKicker t1_j0t9lxc wrote

This always irks me.

Iraq, in fact, possessed WMDs. (Various blister and nerve gas agents). They produced these agents in large quantities…and used them on both Iran and their own Kurdish populations. All of this is well documented.

An Iraqi general later admitted to being one of the leaders responsible for smuggling large quantities of these agents out of the country. Syria being one of those destinations.

Was lumping Iraq into the GWOT wise? Probably not.

But to say they didn’t produce/possess WMDs is demonstrably false.

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nova9001 t1_j0tdeu3 wrote

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction

>A year later, the United States Senate officially released the Senate Report of Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq which concluded that many of the Bush Administration's pre-war statements about Iraqi WMD were misleading and not supported by the underlying intelligence. United States–led inspections later found that Iraq had earlier ceased active WMD production and stockpiling; the war was called by many, including 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain, a "mistake".[1]

WMDs my ass.

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WikiSummarizerBot t1_j0tdfqz wrote

Iraq and weapons of mass destruction

>Iraq actively researched and later employed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) from 1962 to 1991, when it destroyed its chemical weapons stockpile and halted its biological and nuclear weapon programs as required by the United Nations Security Council. The fifth president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, was internationally condemned for his use of chemical weapons during the 1980s campaign against Iranian and Kurdish civilians during and after the Iran–Iraq War. In the 1980s, Saddam pursued an extensive biological weapons program and a nuclear weapons program, though no nuclear bomb was built.

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TinKicker t1_j0u4t8n wrote

It appears you just got owned by a bot.

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nova9001 t1_j0utca8 wrote

When you can't read and have to rely on a bot, its not the flex you think it is.

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IWantAnAffliction t1_j0uh01i wrote

If WMDs are a reason for invasion, then everyone should invade the US as well I guess? Oh, but they've got the strongest military on earth so I guess that makes it okay.

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mrGeaRbOx t1_j0uoetf wrote

In order for this to be logical you need to add the caveat "after being used on innocent civilian population"

Otherwise it's a false equivalence.

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