U.S. Report: Iraq Didn't Have WMDs

[radwriter0555]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041007/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq_weapons_041007062221

WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s weapons of mass destruction programs had deteriorated into only hopes and dreams by the time of the U.S.-led invasion last year, a decline wrought by the first Gulf War (news - web sites) and years of international sanctions, the chief U.S. weapons hunter found.

And what ambitions Saddam harbored for such weapons were secondary to his goal of evading those sanctions, and he wanted them primarily not to attack the United States or to provide them to terrorists, but to oppose his older enemies, Iran and Israel.


The report of weapons hunter Charles Duelfer was presented Wednesday to senators and the public in the midst of a fierce presidential election campaign in which Iraq (news - web sites) and the war of terror have become the overriding issues.

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"In short, we invaded a country, thousands of people have died, and Iraq never posed a grave or growing danger," said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.

[rpannier]

1. Yeah, but...

why let facts get in the way of a good lie?
That seems to be what many in America are saying.

[underpants]

2. Is this LBN? I knew that 2 years ago

Sorry just kiddding.

And yet the White House continues to find parts of sentences in a 1,000 page report to sorta kinda back up a part of what they sorta said but didn't actually say.

[Moderator]

3. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=887558&mesg_id=887558