Debunking the Report

“Let’s assume he didn’t have them. So what?”

David Limbaugh makes an excellent point regarding the new report out concerning Saddam Hussein’s obsession with Iran, and slams the idea that economic sanctions were getting the job done:

In the vice-presidential debate Tuesday night, John Edwards said that President Bush erred in not giving the sanctions more time to work. Oh? Perhaps he didn’t read the ISG report they are gleefully touting. As Tony Blair said, ‘Just as I have had to accept that the evidence now is that there were not stockpiles of actual weapons ready to be deployed, I hope others have the honesty to accept that the report also shows that sanctions weren’t working .’

And can we get real here about the inspections process? If we are just now gaining confidence that Iraq had no WMD stockpiles after being in control of and thoroughly searching that nation for over a year, how could we have ever relied on weapons inspectors with limited access to a foreign land controlled by a hostile dictator?

Makes sense to me. Playing hide and seek with WMD was not the goal or objective of sanctions. The burden of proof was on Saddam folks. . .