(AARRGGHHHHH!) Romney Says It’s ‘Entirely Possible’ That Saddam Had WMD And Hid Them In Syria

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/08/romney-wmd/

Romney Says It’s ‘Entirely Possible’ That Saddam Had WMD And Hid Them In Syria

While most have long given up on the theory that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is still a believer. Last night on Fox’s Hannity & Colmes, host Sean Hannity asked Romney whether he thought Iraq hid weapons of mass destruction in Syria prior to the invasion. “It’s entirely possible,” Romney said.

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Syria did not hide WMD that Saddam Hussein did not have. In April 2005, amidst accusations by Dick Cheney that Hussein transfered weapons to Syria prior to the war, Charles Duelfer of the the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) published an addendum to the ISG’s report on pre-war intelligence explaining that Iraq did not ship weaponry to Syria:

On Syria, the report said that “no information gleaned from questioning Iraqis supported the possibility” that weapons were moved out of the country before the invasion, which was one theory about why no unconventional weapons were found. … Mr. Duelfer reported that his group, the Iraq Survey Group, believed “it was unlikely that an official transfer of W.M.D. material from Iraq to Syria took place.”

Even President Bush, who is known to exaggerate intelligence, admitted after Duelfer’s ISG report that “Iraq did not have the weapons that our intelligence believed were there.”


Transcript:

HANNITY: You have kind words for the president, considering the challenging times that we live in. Even though he has low approval ratings. You believe this was still the right thing. If you had to make the decision, based on what we know now, if you were the president there, do you think you would have done the same thing?

M. ROMNEY: Well, it’s almost a null set. Which is if we knew that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, and if he had complied with the United Nations resolutions to allow IAEA inspectors into his country, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. We wouldn’t have been having the U.N. sanction him. We wouldn’t have had the U.S. angry. So it’s kind of a null set. It’s impossible.

HANNITY: Am I the only one here thinking that in all the build- up to the war that those weapons of mass destruction got moved to Syria?

M. ROMNEY: It’s possible. It’s entirely possible.

Well, it's possible...

:grr:

No telling what kind of BS they'll come up with if allowed to 'write' history.

Anyone know what he's talking about?

to be loved by the rethugs. Should provide lots of fodder for campaign commercials. :)

with his wife who was only 15 at the time and he was 18 when they first started dating. In that case he.............. Entirely possible.

numbers that Bushco had given for WMD's and had done some calculations on how may trucks and how much time it would have taken to get all of that material out of the country and into Syria. It was a highly improbable number, not to mention that this supposedly took place while our surveillance satellites were watching the area closely. Some people just want to believe anything rather than to admit they were wrong about something.

The United Nations concluded in 1999 that Saddam Hussein had biological weapons sufficient to produce over 25,000 liters of anthrax -- enough doses to kill several million people. He hasn't accounted for that material. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed it.

The United Nations concluded that Saddam Hussein had materials sufficient to produce more than 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin -- enough to subject millions of people to death by respiratory failure. He hadn't accounted for that material. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed it.

Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. In such quantities, these chemical agents could also kill untold thousands. He's not accounted for these materials. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed them.

U.S. intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents. Inspectors recently turned up 16 of them -- despite Iraq's recent declaration denying their existence. Saddam Hussein has not accounted for the remaining 29,984 of these prohibited munitions. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed them.

2003 SOTU

Now, "500 tons" converts to 1,000,000 pounds. I like to know how anybody could move 1,000,000 pounds of anything and not be detected...

If Saddam had tried to move all that material before US troops crossed into Iraq, surely it would have been noticed. There would have been convoys stretching for miles. This isn't something that could be done on the sly.

I told her of this statistic (1,000,000 pounds) and asked "where were the photos?" She still wouldn't accept that there were never any WMDs. Even if the face of pure facts, these people don't understand or want to understand.

Its very frustrating...

and we just haven't found them yet. He thinks Bush was justified in ordering the invasion because Saddam was a threat to us. This is a man who I consider to be quite intelligent in other matters. I think it's a case of willful ignorance.

that Saddam stashed his WMDs up Romney's butt.

He is the proverbial empty suit. There is nothing inside at all. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Oh wait, there is that magic underwear stuff.

But don't wait around.

in space.

If Saddam was so damn ruthless, why didnt he use the WMDs against an invading army, intent on capturing and killing him, instead of sending them to Syria? Just when do you think Saddam would have ever use them, if not to save his own throat?

If Saddam had even a single nuke we would have seen it.
he would have used it against invading ground forces.

willard is a swarmy, fooking fascist and will LIE his gobshite head off to get votes.

WMDs, Bio and chemical. Is it possible that tons were transferred to Syria or anywhere else without being detected with the satellite scrutiny that the US possesses? Uh... No freakin' way!

I suspect that Romney will be the GOP candidate with Jeb as VP.

Rest assured, Romney has called the United Federation of Planets for assistance.

But its not very likely.

:eyes:

More pablum for the FauxSnooze viewers

n/t

:banghead:

:D

with help from Russia took the WMD's to either Iran or Syria. I have heard wing nuts repeat that so many times they actually made it a part of their belief system. The same people also seem to forget that the WMD inspectors were allowed back into Iraq and GW went ahead with his invasion any way.

"theory" with the Bush dead-enders, the authoritarians who simply cannot believe that "Daddy" would lie to us, unless, of course, it was for our "own good". This justification also works well with those who cannot admit they were dead wrong in voting for *. And notice in the transcript how Hannity was the one who actually planted the seed, while Mittens went along and agreed with him.

I've heard it uttered among members of my own family, sadly.

you dash my expectations with a dose of stupidity.

Saddam Hussein had no stockpiles of WMD--that's what the evidence tells us, but to people who live in a place I call Republican Realityland, this evidence denies their belief that this war was justified.

It's easier for them to believe that somehow Saddam Hussein was able to load all of this stuff undetected (despite spy satellites and the like) onto truck caravans and haul it into Syria than that the Bush administration might somehow have been wrong.

I think that Romney is dangerous because, like Bush, he will feed into any fantasy that will gain him votes.

When they are all through pandering to the 28% (and dropping) backwash and the most appealing nut case is selected....then he'll have to convince the other 72% that he were only kidding. Should be quite the blowout.

these fuckwits are flogging a dead horse.

yes INDEED

It's possible-it's entirely possible.

This past weekend he was railing against single people for missing out on the glories of matrimony. Today he is channeling Judith Miller and Chalabi.