Why do certain people still believe thar the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is a genuine document? They ave been proved forgeries my eminent scholars and historians, but the myth still perpetuates.

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• Actually, the did find WMD's in Iraq. The major news outlets did not make a big deal about the discoveries because they were not part of the agenda to bash Bush.

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  by Glenn Blaylock on March 18th, 2007

• Then why did Bush himself not 'make a big thing of it?' Surely if he could have answred his critics with hard facts, he should have done so. And many major news outlets would just love to have something concrete with which to bash the Bush-bashers. Do you have a credible source you could cite for us?

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  by yoho05 reminds you to DYOH on March 18th, 2007

• That is a good question that those of us that support the war have been asking. Apparently, Bush just does not want to revisit the issue. However, the following declassified intelligence document (http://intelligence.house.gov/Media/PDFS/DNILetter.pdf) clearly states that we did find chemical weapons in Iraq. (Note the shells were filled with either "degraded mustard gas" or "sarin nerve agent". Sarin does not degrade. So, those shells could have been very nasty if used. There is also a significant amount of evidence that Sadam moved a significant portion of his stock piles to Syria before the war (http://www.2la.org/syria/iraq-wmd.php http://www.nysun.com/article/26514 http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36463)

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  by Glenn Blaylock on March 18th, 2007

• Well, your first source is full of words like 'possibility', 'likely', 'it has been reported in the open press' and 'despite many efforts to locate...' Hardly hard facts. The mention of actual munitions gives no indication of their size, age and capability; and even they are acknowledged to contain 'degraded' substances so who knows how old and ineffective they are. Really, Glenn, I would have expected better from a man of science like yourself. Your other sources are so old that, by now, the wealthiest nation on earth could have marshalled the resources to verify and either prove or disprove the claims. I remain unconvinced by this type of proof.

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  by yoho05 reminds you to DYOH on March 18th, 2007

• Believe as you will, but this is one of the problems with the intelligence industries. Concrete answers are actually hard to come by. However, consider this. If you were the President and you had gotten a lot of grief from you political enemies because the intelligence that you acted on appeared to be faulty (intelligence which was the same as the previous administration cited) would you be very willing to go there again? Personally, I think that the way this whole thing has been politicized just makes it less likely that any administration will act on any credible evidence of an outside threat to our country until after those forces strike killing who knows how many more of our people.

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  by Glenn Blaylock on March 18th, 2007

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