Quote Originally Posted by birdgirl73
OK, Mark and everyone else. Here's some interesting info that may make this disagreement easier for everyone to take.

The 500 munitions of mustard and sarin? Yep, they were indeed found.

And Bush's remark that there weren't any WMDs found since 2003? Yep, that happened too. The thing is the mustard and sarin munitions were recognized immediately by the inspectors and experts as old, rusty pre-1991 mustard and sarin canisters, precisely the type Saddam used on the Kurds and others Iraqi citizens his Ba'ath Party went after, but definitely not what the inspectors were looking for to indicate evidence of a continuing WMD program after the end of the first Gulf War. It was that last part there, the continuing program after 1991 or 92, that Bush II predicated the invasion of Iraq on. And that's why Bush willingly admitted they didn't find what they were looking for. The old canisters they did find still prove that Saddam was both a liar (he said there weren't any weapons at all) and a brutal killer of his own people, at least the ethnic minorites he didn't like.

Here are two reasonably objective pieces about these two different parts of the story in case you're interested:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200499,00.html
http://www.csm.ornl.gov/PR/PR2004/NS-07-12-04.html
Thanks for a WELL BALANCED response! I wish I had time to dig this information up! I hope psycho considers this!