Why Do Many Americans Still Believe in WMDs in Iraq?

[pcorbett]

I've got a question for you. In the past people have speculated that the Mars was populated by little green men. Given the response "It appears that there were not little green men there"; how many little green would you say there was on Mars?

Depends. Was Mars incubating these little green men proliferating in defiance of an international non-proliferation treaty? Did we discover just shortly before a war to end Martian aggression against Phobos? Did Mars defy Security Council resolutions to verifiably disarm after getting its ass kicked? Did the intelligence agencies of nearly every Western country with an interest in Mars' compliance or non-compliance with cease-fire obligations judge that these little green men existed? Has a survey group determined the evidence for and against a transfer of these little green men to Europa is inconclusive?

 

[kyleb]

Heh, no, people had other reasons for suspecting little green men on mars. Regardless, given the evidence to date, it appears that there were not little green men there.

 

[pcorbett]

Heh, no, people had other reasons for suspecting little green men on mars. Regardless, given the evidence to date, it appears that there were not little green men there.

How can you say that when researchers have only exploited an infinitessimally small fraction of the Martian surface? And when Mars occults its moons from Earth's perspective, who's to say what's getting boosted up the pipe? Here're the facts:

1. We know there were little green men in the past.
2. We know that Mars did not comply with the verification procedure laid out in the dis-green-ament resolutions.
3. We have documentary evidence that at the very minimum Mars intended to reconstitute its little green men capability as soon as sanctions were lifted.

Now why not err on the side of caution and presume that unaccounted weapons are still out there?

 

[kyleb]

That isn't caution, that is how we got sidetracked away from doing a good job in Afghanistan.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Heh, no, people had other reasons for suspecting little green men on mars. Regardless, given the evidence to date, it appears that there were not little green men there.

Q: What's the difference between Saddam's WMDs and flying saucers?

A: I can show you pictures of flying saucers.

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

I think this should be moved to Skepticism and Debunking

 

[Astronuc]

Q: What's the difference between Saddam's WMDs and flying saucers?

A: I can show you pictures of flying saucers.

Yeah, but can you distinguish Martian flying saucers from those coming from elsewhere?

 

[edward]

Yeah, but can you distinguish Martian flying saucers from those coming from elsewhere?

Yet the really odd thing is that, according to the Harris Poll, people actually believed that WMD had at last been found.