Yup. He did. And onsidering the information that is publicly available that says that they DID find WMDs, and considering the friend I have who was there when they found much of it (he's a special forces Major named Moses Scheinfeld), I have no idea why he would have said that. The only explanation that I can come up with is the one that says that we didn't find "stockpiles" of WMDs that were fully assembled, but rather we found all the parts necessary, and all that was left to do was put the parts together. That is what David Kay said in several interviews.Quote:
Did we not watch the same video?? Where, at 0:39, Rumsfeld says they did not find WMDS??
Personally, if I were Rumsfeld, I'd have brought LIVE samples of every single type of WMD they found and showed it to Congress right on the FLOOR of the Senate, with the CSpan cameras rolling. And if the congressmen and women were scared of the WMDs being allowed on the floor, I would have used that to make the point. "If you guys are scared of these small samples, how much more scared should you be of an entire arsenal of the stuff?" And to the ones who claimed that there were no WMDs, I'd have said, "Great, then you don't have any problem if I put this canister of Sarin on your desk, do you?", and see what kind of reaction that gets. I'm not above that sort of theatrics to make a point. And I would have invited members of the media to inspect the stuff too... if they had the guts.
But Rummy and Bush chose not to do that. I have no idea why. Frankly, I would have handled the media completely differently in the run-up and aftermath of the invasion. I think that has been the biggest mistake that Bush has made with regard to the war.
Anyway, the bottom line is that I have no idea why Bush and Rummy would say that we didn't find WMDs when we clearly did. Maybe there is more informatuion that we currently do not have... something that they HAVE to keep hidden for some reason or other. I don't know. But the publicly available information is very clear on the subject. We did find WMDs. We just didn't find "stockpiles" of ready-to-fire weapons.
Elliot
