Confirmed: Saddam did not have any WMD

[emad]

By Jason Beattie, Evening Standard Political Correspondent
6 October 2004

Tony Blair faces huge embarrassment today when an official report confirms there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq when war started.

Chief weapons inspector Charles Duelfer will tell the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington DC that there were no stockpiles of WMD in Iraq when the Coalition invaded last year.

The official confirmation has been long expected, but it is a huge blow to the Prime Minister and President George Bush, who both cited Saddam Hussein's weapons programme as the main justification for going to war.

However, in a lifeline for No10 and the White House, Mr Duelfer is expected to add that Saddam was seeking to restart his chemical and biological weapons programme. The report is expected to include new evidence of efforts by the Iraqi leader to bypass UN-imposed sanctions. It will claim Saddam set up clandestine laboratories to manufacture small quantities of chemical and biological weapons for use in assassinations. Downing Street and the White House will seize on these extracts in the report.

More:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/13618561?source=Evening%20Standard

[Sabriel]

1. And HOW is this "news"?

It's sounds like "olds" to me. I hope he goes down in flames, both right now and historically.

[leesa]

2. Yes. This has been confirmed many times now.

Merkins don't care. We just want to whack Muslims, because we can.

[ixion]

3. seeking to restart

a.k.a. DAYDREAMING

Having the desire is not the same as having, especially when tens of thousands of peoples lives and the entire stability of the M.E. hangs in the balance.

This is now the fourth time we've been told that Iraq had no WMD's.

The big question remains: when will the administration be held accountable for starting and illegal invasion of a soverign nation?

[Moderator]

4. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=886573