Bill O'Reilly Spins WMD Story

Rick Santorum, in a desperate political stunt to revive his political campaign, claimed he'd found a classified government report proving Saddam had WMD. Within 24 hours, the Pentagon pointed out these were pre-1991 WMD "in such a degraded state they couldn't be used for what they are designed for." Bill O'Reilly, naturally, gleefully ran with the story immediately without any fact checking.

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[dawl23face]

I didn't say once in any of my posts that older weapons justified the invasion did I? I said if its true, they were in violation(UN rules/laws). I never said, because of these findings it was justified that we went into Iraq. Don't put words in my mouth?Oh, & I wasn't talking about Bill being gutsy, I meant Santorum

[sknabt]

What's your point? Gotcha Saddam on a technicality? There's no MD in these WMD. They're odds & ends picked up in 2s or 3s over the years by us. The UN resolution was always a Bush pretense for war. Even the US can't account for all our WMD. But if all this hooey isn't about justifying Bush's war then who cares?

[sknabt]

Funny Bill calls this the "real deal". O'Really? The next day he dropped it. Pre-1991 is the key because we're not talking an on-going weapons program to justify Bush's invasion. Yeah, dawl23face, it takes a lot of "balls" for Bill to shill this line of bull.

[sknabt]

The Pentagon has completely dismissed Santorum's 'new evidence' of WMD. http://www.newsday.com/news/lo­cal/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct-­-us-iraq0621jun21,0,1889258.st­ory?coll=ny-region-apconnectic­ut

[smooth1nz]

Tell me how O'Reilly is trying to "spin" this one?Five hundred chemical weapons have been found so me thinks the far left"Bush lied" crowd owe the president an apology.

[sknabt]

Bill O'Reilly calls himself an "analyst". "I believe...""I think..." "I think the important thing..." "I don't think so..." "I think this is the real deal" are phrases telegraphing editorial, not analytical fact. By the time his show broadcast the Pentagon had already stated for the record these were not the WMD we went to war for. Bill couldn't be bothered to check with his Pentagon sources before his spew? It's interesting to note the next show O'Reilly dropped the topic entirely.

[Carguy3492]

Anyone else notice that when Bill started to describe what Rick Santorum said, Newt starting coughing? lol coincidence?

[iraqiblaze]

@dawl23face The older weapons found were outdated munitions from the Iraq-Iran war and inncapeble of use as a chemical weapon, they had a usage life of about 3-5 years before they became outdated. The justification of war was that Saddam posesed chemical weapons and continued to attempt to aquire nuclear weapons. Because the "WMD" that were found could not actually be used as weapons, and were inncapeble of causing any destruction, let alone mass destruction, they cannot be in violation of 1441

[Ksteve90]

Does anybody know when this aired? Any help would be great I'm referencing it for a uni assignment

[kanukster]

Liberals want it both way's!

When Clinton and Albright we're shouting from the U.N. roof top, that Saddam had WMD, the media drank it up.

Bush cleans up Clintons mess, and all you here is, "but, but...he ah, but, we ah..I never...ah...it wasn't...ah..."

[SuperBunyon]

Spin. These were never the weapons the US was looking for. In fact, almost every country in the area of the middle east, Europe, and North America have these weapons. They actually came from Western countries. O'reilly is a joke. He is a terrorist at times and a terrorist-sympathizer the rest of the time.

[paladinee]

@tacopylas

CS gas doesnt give you internal blistering as dos mustard.

But the real point is has someone got or not wmd, when whats relly important is has he the means to deliver it. Some types of wmd are relatively easy to make. the problem is taking it somewere

[paladinee]

@tacopylas

them irak never had any wmd since it had used sarin , mustard, etc.

[tacopylas]

No it's not, a wmd creates massive devastation over a large area, like a biological agent or an extremely powerful explosive or radioactive material. You'd have to include CS gas in that category if you include mustard gas. It would only be a wmd if you made an impractically large bomb out of it. Not all illegal weapons are wmd's.

[paladinee]

@tacopylas

yes it is.