Responding to The Heretic: Clarifying my earlier points

Before reading this, read the response to my last post by following this link.

Yes, Saddam had chemical weapons, and yes we gave them to him to fight our arch enemy at the time, Iran. However Americans where decieved when they were asked to "imagine" a "mushroom cloud over an American city", to quote our very own President. Everyone knew that Saddam had chemical weapons. Almost no one would have denied that, even the French.

What everyone was at odds with was our President's assertion that Saddam had the capability to create nuclear weapons, that Saddam had even purchased yellowcake Uranium from Africa, and that he was planning to attack the west with his weapons. This was the primary rhetoric leading up to the invasion, and it turned out to be a farce.

I believe the rhetoric regarding Saddam and his ties with terrorism, was that he was "harboring" terrorists, which wasn't true outside of his own government's activities. Al Qaeda has only taken hold in Iraq since the invasion, and many of the insurgents, who were from Saddam's army, are using weapons we disregarded in our WMD search. The real WMD's in this war have become the convential weapons we left unguarded because our invasion force was insufficient in size to properly secure them and because their limited numbers were searching for Saddam's "nuclear" weapons.