May 12, 2015 3:00 PM
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Pleasedontletittouchme
the last one was originally "pure liberal media", guess that wouldn't get so many points here as tumblr bashing though
BvcketHat
Oh, bother.
theironcockshredderofpawnee
Winston the Feces VII
UnidentifiedAwesomeHumanoid
The last one got me
xtaylorconverse
NSFW edition: ?1
MagnustheJust
Tiggering intensifies.
metaknight999
I swear to God, the Illuminati are everywhere. Also, LOLed so hard that everyone gave me funny looks.
tacticalneckshirt
dbqp
If this won't pop on the frontpage soon i will be very disappointed.
Tiffyy
This sounds like a cards against humanity card.
roorback
Hahahahah
leo24
لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله
Atalung
on a serious note, Iraq did have chemical weapons, the pentagon released the proof a few months ago
GrandMoonerino
Can someone explain what "minding a pronoun" means
Mouq
For example, transmen are psychologically male (e.g., their brains are structured men's, they feel like men), but may still appear female.
If someone's asked you to call them something, even if they appear otherwise or you don't understand, it's a matter of respect to do so.
mrirish725
You know Iraq actually DID have WMD's right?
LumburgOR
I heard this on Fox News too.
neanderbob
Yet the people who ridiculed those that believed that fall silent. Amazing.
Pretty freaking much.
Getchachuckleon
Did......did you just depict the profit Muhammad?
queenofthehoneyhornets
*Prophet
uskglass
*Prawfoot
*Praughfut
HanSolo312
Tigger literally used no pronouns incorrectly no matter what pooh identified as
DasGangle
You can't reason with tumblr
LoinKing
Mind the pronouns, shitlord.
DumbShitIsMyTrigger
Tiggered
FlatPlutoSociety
Initially misread as "triggered." Rolled eyes. Re-read. Upvoted.
captaingrump
You are clever. You deserve to be the top comment. The universe is unjust.
goodguyC
100% Yes!!!! You just won the internet, we can all go home now!
syzygies
[bouncing intensifies]
DerpKugel
I litterally dropped my jaw on my keyboard.. like literallymflækorkmrjnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
thundrlipz
I can't even
But can you odd? :)
droomph
Icelandic Danish or Norwegian, most likely
Danish :)
AGorgonMadeMyPenisHard
Best comment ever? I think so
eidolways
Nah, it's not the best comment ever. It's just a tribute. *nods*
Demauscian
Couldn't remember the greatest comment in the world!
MaybeGrapes
Edward Macaroni Fork
glittergoats
Wanted to downvote this, but it's a tribute to the original and also the best response to this ever.
sussemilch
http://imgur.com/icY8Gv4
nipplepanties
But breadsticks is like family to me
Goodnewwseveryone
This one is so cheesy, but still good (pun intended)
THEGREATDOG
leasemealone
This made me blow air out my nose very quickly
myr14d
#1: Oh Father.
spoonageddon
I see what you did there...
PleasantPeasantPheasant
Can this be a thing? I'm hoping this will be a thing.
wyatt8740
These things never become things, unless they start cropping up on /b/.
CarlTheLlamaBoy
I've got the tattoo guns and shirt pens ready!
howaboutthisonethen
It's already a fucking thing, jesus
SlightlyNormal
It looks like it's already a thing
Jespertheend
this is now a thing
StartedMakingTrouble
CanBobTheBuilderFixMyLife
I has been a thing for about half a year or something. Got the last pic saved on my pc around Christmas last year...
KazadAiMenu
Once it hit the front page it will. then it will get old, then disappear, then be reposted from time to time and be a mini thing occasionaly
Thatoneguynoonecarestoknow
You should do stocks. Your attention to patterns, uncanny.
FailToImpress
Its actually just common sense, and my personal prediction for this loop is the giraffe/dickbutt thing
Cheomesh
This is actually a dank meme; I remember this years ago. Well, some of it anyways.
Smajdalf
http://imgur.com/DByLyPa
Winning
JigsawLV
This ain't no Hulkamania, brother
0void00
Why is this not winning the internets?
TheRealNukeGuy
Commenting for later use
TapDancinWithTedDanson
What the hell, Imgur? Why do you insist on destroying everything I once loved?
CrowDeMorcerf
It says it when you sign an account, they use your destroyed love to create cat OC and pay the terrible and unreasonably high cat tax.
CheesusChrisp
thunderrunner
:parrot: :parrot: !
ALL HAIL HYPNOBIRD
Someone should photoshop the hypnotoad eyes on it.
flamingchickens
Check your privilege, tiger bitch
Altswang
Tigger
DickChapey
As a quad-gendered rainbow lioness, I find this extremely insensitive, you cis scum.
I identify as feline, you shitlord. Stop the OPPRESSION from the CATRIARCHY
ScottLovesCake
There were no gender-defining pronouns. Nnngh.
Xaldyn
It's tumblr. "Pooh" very well may be considered a gender there.
klubai4
"You" clearly assumes that someone identifies as a person! *TRIGGERED*
TheWayADrillWorks
I happen to identify as an object! Stop objectifying me!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherkin ?
...was making a joke.
And I was playing along but it didn't show very well in text I guess ;(
http://fypronouns.tumblr.com/post/41143698496/a-guide-to-pronouns-made-for-cis-people severe Poe's Law warning
Oh, my bad, I misunderstood the post being referenced. The point there is that black people make up the majority of trans* folk [1]
So to the responder it was ironic that someone used that gif. It's an overreaction, but imagine getting called the wrong name constantly [2]
and then getting mocked when you wanted to be called by your actual name: it might make you a little sensitive about certain jokes :P [3/3]
Better example: http://fypronouns.tumblr.com/tagged/ask "fae" "cae" .. trigender... otherkin .. faerie-kind ..
Just.. I get the problems.. but I won't remember in a group that person A uses "cae/cae/caes/caers" and person B uses "aime" etcetc
xe/xem, ae/aer, kie/kir/kirs/kirself, vae/vaer, per ...
Fair, just names are a pain to keep track of. But it's a matter of respect and, as in any discourse, both parties need to be understanding.
I'll certainly respect any preference on he/she/they. It's the individual made-up ones that gets my proverbial underwear in a bunch.
SirMuffinz
*saves first picture* time to make this a thing.
Zwonky
Let's do it.
Evyreid
Go forth and spread the word you beautiful bastard!
CaptSlowShow
Godspeed, SirMuffinz
Zechie
foxcastle
Sweet Jesus, Pooh! That's not Front Page. You're consuming usersub!
Zeyphr
Pooh: "And I'm Javert..."
TheAmazingDangerGuy
Oh bother.
thisistheonlycommentiwillevermake
*dickbutt**RMH**Sob Stories**Remy Lacroix Hool-a-Hooping*
getthismanabeer
wut
TheRicM
*Hula hooping. Or more like Hole-a-Hopping AMIRITE
roguetitan
Sick reference brah
zackofspades
RMH? Red Melisandre Hump day? @serapls
hahahahaha, I didn't realize i mixed that up until your comment, hilarious! (also, lets make this happen...)
TheRedOnesTasteLikeBurning
snibblify
I'm gonna NSFW that.
DarthPIagueisTheWise
.
HustonVogle
O_O
Omgitsadonut
wat
Megawolfy
Oh my god!...cool.
ninjafinity
NSFL
EroticZombiePants
This looks convincing enough to see it in an episode.
ayd3nm
At first I was like "cool" then I was like "COOL"
lebowskisd
if I could favorite comments, I'd cherish this one forever
WampaSlayar
I was hoping to find this here.
ralph4242
Oh bother...
Xang
MedjayArcher
oh boner
uh i mean bother
idontunderstandhoweyeballswork
no you don't
7thTimesTheCharm
No.
Hypothermo
such a beautiful sight
Sephority
Oh.
bryantdang3r
Bother.
FlesHBoX
That is so perfect. Even the look on his face afterwords works!
ThePowerOf42
Thats not honey..
CptMelicious
That went to a dark place.
Williamshitshispants
I'm uncomfortable :(
howdoigetoffthisthing
:(
semirelatedcomments
Holy shit!
misterturdcat
Oh my god!
GODofTimewaste
http://youtu.be/AXzEcwYs8Eo
Metaloxin
Yesss....
EmmaItalia23
This. This is why I'm on Imgur, you dark, twisty soul. Thanks for ruining Poohbear.
Crogicun
Commenting for later. O . O
MontJak
Owwww it made me sad, here have an upvote.
HungryPumpkn
But why would you use your teeth to eat honey...
Pr0Pain
Looks like he needs a hand
AStrangerInTheAlps
Oh, I wonder what's going to happ- wait, HOLY FUCK!!!!!
HawasKaPujari
Why?
Sweet Jesus, Pooh!
YourSecretSantaSHHHH
Perfection
DidYouKnowThatCashewsComeFromAFruit
NOoooooooOOoooOoOooooooOooooo
Brotherrrr!!!!!!!!!!!
ILostIt
commenting for post work disgust
ExpressiveEdge
Just...walk away...walk away and forget what I have just seen
BranAlastor
Well that escalated quickly...
QuietEarthling
OMG
Sugarcrotch
I think pooh has an addiction
Chaosdawn
OMFG
Anthrozil7
Fut the wuck...
thisIsTheShortestUsernameEverCreatedInTheHistoryOfTheEarth
FTW!
exileofthewolvz
I loved every bit of this gif...
EmotionalSupportPig
Me too. Everyone else is a pussy.
PfcTommi
Every bite I think you meant
well played...
katwi
Commenting to save gif
TheStigsAmericanCousin
v
Curiousone545
MmMMMmmm. always upvote ben. <3
skrimple
Laugh of the day! Take your green pointie
PromotedFromLurker
This went to a dark place, and I love this.
UrsaUrsa
+1
prattleassassin
Goodbye childhood
TheLordLucifersBannedAccount02
Goodbye Horses
AdonalsiumShard16
Kinda similar:
Ricochet64
um
SkiZion
You need Jesus.
evmike
Jesus needs Jesus for this one @-@
ThePickle
Iraq did have WMDs.
Its true, FOX News told me so.
notme222
Also the US got a lot of its information from British Intelligence about them. We arguably share more info with allies than btwn departments
Five Eyes, probably. International collaboration, more than sharing.
Abracaderpa
Old and obsolete, which everybody knew of before hand and didn't consider a risk because they weren't.
StillNotYouTube
Well yeah, pipe bombs are WMD's now.
likeabakerikneadthedough
Sold to them by the US.
khuan
They didn't have functional WMDs, nor were they creating WMDs, which was the reason given for the invasion.
AtLeastIAmHonest
Found the American.
Frozenpasties
And were deployed against civilians. But nobody really cares, since it wasn't the US doing the killing. I find that morbidly funny.
ChuckZombie
Civilians forming an army in a civil war.
Kurdish villages were gassed in an attempted genocide campaign. That probably encourages people to try and protect themselves.
kongfuchicken
Call me jaded but after we officially labeled tsarnaev's pressure cookers a WMD with a straight face, the term lost a lot of its mystique.
ETBDB
264 people were injured by those, don't downplay the attack.
Nobody is downplaying it. I was trying to point out that the term has been used in media scaremongering too loosely and lost its meaning 1/2
A single missile, which we don't classify as WMD and Saddam had plenty of would have inflicted orders of magnitude more deaths. 2/2
HoboDucky
WHATS A WMD
GangplankTheSaltwaterScourge
weapon of mass destruction. covers everything from nukes to chemical/biological weapons
AntiGravity33
Weapon of mass destruction. Generally people assume only nukes because of the big bada boom, but chem bombs will fuck up a lot of shit too.
suomynonA
I like you.
Treblaine
And the issue was that Saddam wouldn't prove that he'd gotten rid of them, he wanted to keep hiding his hand and bluffing.
Still I think the war was an unfortunate mistake, but I'm not going to be as hysterical about it as those on the left.
Zombles
I'm a Republican and calling over a hundred thousand dead an unfortunate mistake is more sickening to me than hysterics
Look, when it was not fortunate and it was far from the right way, I'm sorry but I refuse to be drawn into emotive language like "sickening"
actuallyMikeTyson
A UN team concluded that he had followed the guidelines given to him, but we invaded anyway. That's what I got out, at least
It IS complex but in brief "[Iraq has] not genuinely accepted UN resolutions demanding that it disarm." Hans Blix (Jan 2003)
HaniiPuppy
The WMDs that Iraq had (that the US supplied them with) were eventually found abandoned in a ditch, and had been there for a long time. ...
... Because Saddam Hussein had bugger all use for WMDs and stumping up the maintenance and development costs for them would have been ...
... a needless waste on his national budget, which he'd have much rather spend on giant statues of himself, or Qurans written in his blood.
ThomasMontgomeryHaverford
That's all woefully false. Although the US did provide support for the chemical weapons, the vast majority of the work was done by Iraq.
Also, Saddam's Baathist party was avowedly secular. In fact, the founder of Baathism was a Christian.
Whydopeoplekeepcallingmethat
To be clear, I'm not disputing that the Baathist party was secular, merely pointing out that he did have it done.
He DID have a Quran written in his blood though (or at least claimed it was his blood): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Quran
SomeDetroitGuy
It's weird to me that people don't realize this. There was a large UN project to dismantle them. They turned out to not be a threat, though.
ourari
Yes, but the difference is that they were presented as a new and active threat. WMDs that were later recovered were old, rotting stockpiles.
LloydWaldo
The UN project predated the war, which is why people don't connect the two- he didn't have any we didn't know about.
UnknownPenguins
So Fox News was not lying to me??
lovemesomepoptarts
http://news.yahoo.com/chemical-weapons-found-in-iraq-nyt-report-135347507.html
FredTwo
Let's not get ahead of ourselves on that one
JPDennis
Well, to a point
The most believable lies have a core of truth.
sparkledick
I think a lot of people believed that WMD = nukes, which Iraq didn't have, but they did have chemical weapons, which are still WMDs.
apolloin
And we know they had chemical weapons, because WE sold them to Iraq.
Yeah, their nuclear program was WAY behind what people thought. It was laughably ridiculous and NEVER could have been a threat.
Well, they didn't in 2003 (usable ones anyway)
They were there, but they were controlled by the UN. Saddam didn't have them.
Nope. All the weapons were destroyed after Gulf War I. The UN only inspected the weapons sites and sealed away some of the unusable remains
There were sites with Uranium, specifically. Yes- in an unusable state, but still not in Saddam's control.
can be usable in an actual bomb. So my original comment still stands: there was no WMD in Iraq in 2003. 2/2
Ah, Uranium itself does not constitute a weapon, much less a WMD, as it requires a massive enrichment process that takes years before it 1/2
Pleasedontletittouchme
the last one was originally "pure liberal media", guess that wouldn't get so many points here as tumblr bashing though
BvcketHat
Oh, bother.
theironcockshredderofpawnee
Winston the Feces VII
UnidentifiedAwesomeHumanoid
The last one got me
xtaylorconverse
NSFW edition:
?1
MagnustheJust
Tiggering intensifies.
metaknight999
I swear to God, the Illuminati are everywhere. Also, LOLed so hard that everyone gave me funny looks.
tacticalneckshirt
dbqp
If this won't pop on the frontpage soon i will be very disappointed.
Tiffyy
This sounds like a cards against humanity card.
roorback
Hahahahah
leo24
لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله
Atalung
on a serious note, Iraq did have chemical weapons, the pentagon released the proof a few months ago
GrandMoonerino
Can someone explain what "minding a pronoun" means
Mouq
For example, transmen are psychologically male (e.g., their brains are structured men's, they feel like men), but may still appear female.
Mouq
If someone's asked you to call them something, even if they appear otherwise or you don't understand, it's a matter of respect to do so.
mrirish725
You know Iraq actually DID have WMD's right?
LumburgOR
I heard this on Fox News too.
neanderbob
Yet the people who ridiculed those that believed that fall silent. Amazing.
mrirish725
Pretty freaking much.
Getchachuckleon
Did......did you just depict the profit Muhammad?
queenofthehoneyhornets
*Prophet
uskglass
*Prawfoot
queenofthehoneyhornets
*Praughfut
HanSolo312
Tigger literally used no pronouns incorrectly no matter what pooh identified as
DasGangle
You can't reason with tumblr
LoinKing
Mind the pronouns, shitlord.
DumbShitIsMyTrigger
Tiggered
FlatPlutoSociety
Initially misread as "triggered." Rolled eyes. Re-read. Upvoted.
captaingrump
You are clever. You deserve to be the top comment. The universe is unjust.
goodguyC
100% Yes!!!! You just won the internet, we can all go home now!
syzygies
[bouncing intensifies]
DerpKugel
I litterally dropped my jaw on my keyboard.. like literallymflækorkmrjnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
thundrlipz
I can't even
DerpKugel
But can you odd? :)
droomph
Icelandic Danish or Norwegian, most likely
DerpKugel
Danish :)
AGorgonMadeMyPenisHard
Best comment ever? I think so
eidolways
Nah, it's not the best comment ever. It's just a tribute. *nods*
Demauscian
Couldn't remember the greatest comment in the world!
MaybeGrapes
Edward Macaroni Fork
glittergoats
Wanted to downvote this, but it's a tribute to the original and also the best response to this ever.
sussemilch
http://imgur.com/icY8Gv4
nipplepanties
But breadsticks is like family to me
Goodnewwseveryone
This one is so cheesy, but still good (pun intended)
THEGREATDOG
leasemealone
This made me blow air out my nose very quickly
myr14d
#1: Oh Father.
spoonageddon
I see what you did there...
PleasantPeasantPheasant
Can this be a thing? I'm hoping this will be a thing.
wyatt8740
These things never become things, unless they start cropping up on /b/.
CarlTheLlamaBoy
I've got the tattoo guns and shirt pens ready!
howaboutthisonethen
It's already a fucking thing, jesus
SlightlyNormal
It looks like it's already a thing
Jespertheend
this is now a thing
StartedMakingTrouble
CanBobTheBuilderFixMyLife
I has been a thing for about half a year or something. Got the last pic saved on my pc around Christmas last year...
KazadAiMenu
Once it hit the front page it will. then it will get old, then disappear, then be reposted from time to time and be a mini thing occasionaly
Thatoneguynoonecarestoknow
You should do stocks. Your attention to patterns, uncanny.
FailToImpress
Its actually just common sense, and my personal prediction for this loop is the giraffe/dickbutt thing
Cheomesh
This is actually a dank meme; I remember this years ago. Well, some of it anyways.
Smajdalf
http://imgur.com/DByLyPa
spoonageddon
Winning
JigsawLV
This ain't no Hulkamania, brother
0void00
spoonageddon
Why is this not winning the internets?
TheRealNukeGuy
Commenting for later use
TapDancinWithTedDanson
What the hell, Imgur? Why do you insist on destroying everything I once loved?
CrowDeMorcerf
It says it when you sign an account, they use your destroyed love to create cat OC and pay the terrible and unreasonably high cat tax.
CheesusChrisp
thunderrunner
:parrot: :parrot: !
Goodnewwseveryone
ALL HAIL HYPNOBIRD
CheesusChrisp
Someone should photoshop the hypnotoad eyes on it.
flamingchickens
Check your privilege, tiger bitch
Altswang
Tigger
DickChapey
As a quad-gendered rainbow lioness, I find this extremely insensitive, you cis scum.
thundrlipz
I identify as feline, you shitlord. Stop the OPPRESSION from the CATRIARCHY
ScottLovesCake
There were no gender-defining pronouns. Nnngh.
Xaldyn
It's tumblr. "Pooh" very well may be considered a gender there.
klubai4
"You" clearly assumes that someone identifies as a person! *TRIGGERED*
TheWayADrillWorks
I happen to identify as an object! Stop objectifying me!
klubai4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherkin ?
TheWayADrillWorks
...was making a joke.
klubai4
And I was playing along but it didn't show very well in text I guess ;(
klubai4
http://fypronouns.tumblr.com/post/41143698496/a-guide-to-pronouns-made-for-cis-people severe Poe's Law warning
Mouq
Oh, my bad, I misunderstood the post being referenced. The point there is that black people make up the majority of trans* folk [1]
Mouq
So to the responder it was ironic that someone used that gif. It's an overreaction, but imagine getting called the wrong name constantly [2]
Mouq
and then getting mocked when you wanted to be called by your actual name: it might make you a little sensitive about certain jokes :P [3/3]
klubai4
Better example: http://fypronouns.tumblr.com/tagged/ask "fae" "cae" .. trigender... otherkin .. faerie-kind ..
klubai4
Just.. I get the problems.. but I won't remember in a group that person A uses "cae/cae/caes/caers" and person B uses "aime" etcetc
klubai4
xe/xem, ae/aer, kie/kir/kirs/kirself, vae/vaer, per ...
Mouq
Fair, just names are a pain to keep track of. But it's a matter of respect and, as in any discourse, both parties need to be understanding.
klubai4
I'll certainly respect any preference on he/she/they. It's the individual made-up ones that gets my proverbial underwear in a bunch.
SirMuffinz
*saves first picture* time to make this a thing.
Zwonky
Let's do it.
Evyreid
Go forth and spread the word you beautiful bastard!
CaptSlowShow
Godspeed, SirMuffinz
Zechie
foxcastle
Sweet Jesus, Pooh! That's not Front Page. You're consuming usersub!
Zeyphr
Pooh: "And I'm Javert..."
TheAmazingDangerGuy
Oh bother.
thisistheonlycommentiwillevermake
*dickbutt**RMH**Sob Stories**Remy Lacroix Hool-a-Hooping*
getthismanabeer
wut
TheRicM
*Hula hooping. Or more like Hole-a-Hopping AMIRITE
roguetitan
Sick reference brah
zackofspades
RMH? Red Melisandre Hump day? @serapls
thisistheonlycommentiwillevermake
hahahahaha, I didn't realize i mixed that up until your comment, hilarious! (also, lets make this happen...)
TheRedOnesTasteLikeBurning
snibblify
I'm gonna NSFW that.
DarthPIagueisTheWise
.
HustonVogle
O_O
Omgitsadonut
wat
Megawolfy
Oh my god!...cool.
ninjafinity
NSFL
EroticZombiePants
This looks convincing enough to see it in an episode.
ayd3nm
At first I was like "cool" then I was like "COOL"
lebowskisd
if I could favorite comments, I'd cherish this one forever
WampaSlayar
I was hoping to find this here.
ralph4242
Oh bother...
Xang
MedjayArcher
oh boner
MedjayArcher
uh i mean bother
idontunderstandhoweyeballswork
no you don't
7thTimesTheCharm
No.
Hypothermo
such a beautiful sight
Sephority
Oh.
bryantdang3r
Bother.
FlesHBoX
That is so perfect. Even the look on his face afterwords works!
ThePowerOf42
Thats not honey..
CptMelicious
That went to a dark place.
Williamshitshispants
I'm uncomfortable :(
howdoigetoffthisthing
:(
semirelatedcomments
Holy shit!
misterturdcat
Oh my god!
GODofTimewaste
http://youtu.be/AXzEcwYs8Eo
Metaloxin
Yesss....
EmmaItalia23
This. This is why I'm on Imgur, you dark, twisty soul. Thanks for ruining Poohbear.
Crogicun
Commenting for later. O . O
MontJak
Owwww it made me sad, here have an upvote.
HungryPumpkn
But why would you use your teeth to eat honey...
Pr0Pain
Looks like he needs a hand
AStrangerInTheAlps
Oh, I wonder what's going to happ- wait, HOLY FUCK!!!!!
HawasKaPujari
Why?
Zeyphr
Sweet Jesus, Pooh!
YourSecretSantaSHHHH
Perfection
DidYouKnowThatCashewsComeFromAFruit
NOoooooooOOoooOoOooooooOooooo
LoinKing
Brotherrrr!!!!!!!!!!!
ILostIt
commenting for post work disgust
ExpressiveEdge
Just...walk away...walk away and forget what I have just seen
BranAlastor
Well that escalated quickly...
QuietEarthling
OMG
Sugarcrotch
I think pooh has an addiction
Chaosdawn
OMFG
Anthrozil7
Fut the wuck...
Xang
thisIsTheShortestUsernameEverCreatedInTheHistoryOfTheEarth
FTW!
exileofthewolvz
I loved every bit of this gif...
EmotionalSupportPig
Me too. Everyone else is a pussy.
PfcTommi
Every bite I think you meant
exileofthewolvz
well played...
katwi
Commenting to save gif
TheStigsAmericanCousin
Curiousone545
MmMMMmmm. always upvote ben. <3
skrimple
Laugh of the day! Take your green pointie
PromotedFromLurker
This went to a dark place, and I love this.
UrsaUrsa
+1
prattleassassin
Goodbye childhood
TheLordLucifersBannedAccount02
Goodbye Horses
AdonalsiumShard16
Kinda similar:
Ricochet64
um
SkiZion
You need Jesus.
evmike
Jesus needs Jesus for this one @-@
ThePickle
Iraq did have WMDs.
LumburgOR
Its true, FOX News told me so.
notme222
Also the US got a lot of its information from British Intelligence about them. We arguably share more info with allies than btwn departments
Zechie
Five Eyes, probably. International collaboration, more than sharing.
Abracaderpa
Old and obsolete, which everybody knew of before hand and didn't consider a risk because they weren't.
StillNotYouTube
Well yeah, pipe bombs are WMD's now.
likeabakerikneadthedough
Sold to them by the US.
khuan
They didn't have functional WMDs, nor were they creating WMDs, which was the reason given for the invasion.
AtLeastIAmHonest
Found the American.
Frozenpasties
And were deployed against civilians. But nobody really cares, since it wasn't the US doing the killing. I find that morbidly funny.
ChuckZombie
Civilians forming an army in a civil war.
Frozenpasties
Kurdish villages were gassed in an attempted genocide campaign. That probably encourages people to try and protect themselves.
kongfuchicken
Call me jaded but after we officially labeled tsarnaev's pressure cookers a WMD with a straight face, the term lost a lot of its mystique.
ETBDB
264 people were injured by those, don't downplay the attack.
kongfuchicken
Nobody is downplaying it. I was trying to point out that the term has been used in media scaremongering too loosely and lost its meaning 1/2
kongfuchicken
A single missile, which we don't classify as WMD and Saddam had plenty of would have inflicted orders of magnitude more deaths. 2/2
HoboDucky
WHATS A WMD
GangplankTheSaltwaterScourge
weapon of mass destruction. covers everything from nukes to chemical/biological weapons
AntiGravity33
Weapon of mass destruction. Generally people assume only nukes because of the big bada boom, but chem bombs will fuck up a lot of shit too.
suomynonA
AntiGravity33
I like you.
Treblaine
And the issue was that Saddam wouldn't prove that he'd gotten rid of them, he wanted to keep hiding his hand and bluffing.
Treblaine
Still I think the war was an unfortunate mistake, but I'm not going to be as hysterical about it as those on the left.
Zombles
I'm a Republican and calling over a hundred thousand dead an unfortunate mistake is more sickening to me than hysterics
Treblaine
Look, when it was not fortunate and it was far from the right way, I'm sorry but I refuse to be drawn into emotive language like "sickening"
actuallyMikeTyson
A UN team concluded that he had followed the guidelines given to him, but we invaded anyway. That's what I got out, at least
Treblaine
It IS complex but in brief "[Iraq has] not genuinely accepted UN resolutions demanding that it disarm." Hans Blix (Jan 2003)
HaniiPuppy
The WMDs that Iraq had (that the US supplied them with) were eventually found abandoned in a ditch, and had been there for a long time. ...
HaniiPuppy
... Because Saddam Hussein had bugger all use for WMDs and stumping up the maintenance and development costs for them would have been ...
HaniiPuppy
... a needless waste on his national budget, which he'd have much rather spend on giant statues of himself, or Qurans written in his blood.
ThomasMontgomeryHaverford
That's all woefully false. Although the US did provide support for the chemical weapons, the vast majority of the work was done by Iraq.
ThomasMontgomeryHaverford
Also, Saddam's Baathist party was avowedly secular. In fact, the founder of Baathism was a Christian.
Whydopeoplekeepcallingmethat
To be clear, I'm not disputing that the Baathist party was secular, merely pointing out that he did have it done.
Whydopeoplekeepcallingmethat
He DID have a Quran written in his blood though (or at least claimed it was his blood): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Quran
SomeDetroitGuy
It's weird to me that people don't realize this. There was a large UN project to dismantle them. They turned out to not be a threat, though.
ourari
Yes, but the difference is that they were presented as a new and active threat. WMDs that were later recovered were old, rotting stockpiles.
LloydWaldo
The UN project predated the war, which is why people don't connect the two- he didn't have any we didn't know about.
UnknownPenguins
So Fox News was not lying to me??
lovemesomepoptarts
http://news.yahoo.com/chemical-weapons-found-in-iraq-nyt-report-135347507.html
FredTwo
Let's not get ahead of ourselves on that one
JPDennis
Well, to a point
SomeDetroitGuy
The most believable lies have a core of truth.
sparkledick
I think a lot of people believed that WMD = nukes, which Iraq didn't have, but they did have chemical weapons, which are still WMDs.
apolloin
And we know they had chemical weapons, because WE sold them to Iraq.
SomeDetroitGuy
Yeah, their nuclear program was WAY behind what people thought. It was laughably ridiculous and NEVER could have been a threat.
ThomasMontgomeryHaverford
Well, they didn't in 2003 (usable ones anyway)
LloydWaldo
They were there, but they were controlled by the UN. Saddam didn't have them.
ThomasMontgomeryHaverford
Nope. All the weapons were destroyed after Gulf War I. The UN only inspected the weapons sites and sealed away some of the unusable remains
LloydWaldo
There were sites with Uranium, specifically. Yes- in an unusable state, but still not in Saddam's control.
ThomasMontgomeryHaverford
can be usable in an actual bomb. So my original comment still stands: there was no WMD in Iraq in 2003. 2/2
ThomasMontgomeryHaverford
Ah, Uranium itself does not constitute a weapon, much less a WMD, as it requires a massive enrichment process that takes years before it 1/2