Solopilot:
I am holding in my hand one live cartridge, caliber .376Steyr. Only a fool would believe that it is the only one in my possession.
True. But then the Pentagon have not reported that your cartridge was part of an experimental research program, and not mass produced ordinance. If they had, I may well think that it may be one of just a few such cartridges.
"Hardly a WMD"? Do you have any idea how many people three liters of sarin will kill? And the age is really not important -- Hussein said he didn't have it, the Hans "Ignorance S." Blix Clown Show didn't find it, but there it was anyway. What makes you think that it was the only one? Age isn't important.
Sarin may be highly toxic, but that does not make an artillery shell a WMD. Armor piercing bullets have uranium tips, but they too are hardly WMD.
Age is important. We were sold the lie that Saddam had active WMD programs. This was not from an active weapons program, and was not a WMD.
How many Sunnis have you asked?
Ha! About 40% of the locals where I live in London are Sunni Muslims with strong views on the subject. True, not many of them are Iraqi - and confusingly, those that are Iraqi and Sunni also happen to be Kurds. I can honestly say that I must have listened to 100's, if not 1000’s of these peoples views (mostly unsolicited), and I have not heard one who has told me that they think that we are right to have our troops occupying Iraq. Even the Kurds, who do at least seem genuinely grateful that Saddam was removed, don’t really support our occupation.
However, for a slightly more balanced analysis of Iraqi views than inner London Muslim prejudice, try
http://www.oxfordresearch.com/Iraq%20Ju ... Tables.PDFAnyway, I have just come to realize that this issue is religion to you, and I won't argue religion.
I’m a devout atheist, spiritually and politically. My views on Iraq are fairly middle-of-the road on this side of the pond. The fact that you see me as some crazed zealot is the very issue that started this thread…..
Organized religion is like organized crime; it preys on peoples' weaknesses, generates huge profits for its operators, and is almost impossible to eradicate - Mike Hermann