Is Glenn Greenwald trying to save face?

[quaker bill]

88. Anyone who looked at it rationally and thought it through knew there were no WMD

It was never that hard to figure out. Greenwald was apparently not trying very hard.

Saddam had no WMD because:

They are expensive to make,

Difficult and expensive to secure and maintain, and

completely useless against American forces.



Saddam had a great many tons of WMD during Desert Storm, and did not deploy any of them against US forces. The reason for this is not precisely clear, it could be that he thought they would not work, of it could be that he was sure we would kill him if he did. Either way, WMD were useless to him.

He instead spent the money he had on millions of tons of conventional explosive ordinance, which was allowed under the sanctions. Part of the reason we were there so long was that the explosive ordinance disposal contractors estimated that it would take roughly 10 years to dispose of the stockpiles, and curiously we were there for almost 10 years....