OK Bobert, I will admit that I am wrong about Saddam being given a gold plated M16 if you can show it in one of the sources you cited. Ya got a deal.

But there are other things like the "bad gas" that you claim the US sold to Saddam that need to backed up with something credible.

You see, I research before I make an assertion. The closest things I can find to your assertion is a Dutch guy that got jail time for selling tons of ingredients to Saddam for making the bad gas and one of the ingredients came from a company in Baltimore.

U.S. authorities say the defunct company, Alcolac Inc. effectively supplied both sides during the Iran-Iraq war. Alcolac pleaded guilty in 1989 to knowingly violating export laws in the case of a shipment of thiodiglycol that ultimately went to Iran. Alcolac turned a blind eye to abundant evidence in its files that this chemical was not going to the final destination that its customers stated in documents filed with customs.

The other thing I found was that a non profit group gave some germ specimens to some medical group in Iraq that requested them for research. It was approved by the US government.

Do you think these could have been hyped until it turned into the US selling the poison gas and Bio WMDs?

Also WMDs was not the only reason for going after Saddam. You base your assertions on that as if it were fact and then build this whole thread on it as if it was a fact. Maybe WMDs were the main reason or considered the most important reason but not the only reason.

Another thing is that is perfectly possible for someone to be incorrect about some things and correct about other things.

Often people try to use false logic of saying that if someone was incorrect about one thing it proves they were wrong about other things. That either they are stupid or a liar. That is a logical fallacy.

I have seen instances where I agreed with Amos or Bobert, I said so and was not struck by lightning.

Another logical fallacy is to assert that because a plurality of people believe something to be true, it must be true, a famous Amos ploy. How many people thought the earth was flat? They were wrong.