Having friendly discussion with Repub, need resource ...

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I need a link to the press conference given by Powell in Cairo Egypt back in 2001 stating that the containment of Iraq and Saddam had worked and that he didn't have WMD, or WMD program capability, and that his conventional forces were no longer a viable threat to neighboring countries.

Thanks!

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1. state . gov

http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2001/931.htm

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2. google is your friend-- learn to research

snip> not for the purpose of hurting the Iraqi people, but for the purpose of keeping in check Saddam Hussein's ambitions toward developing weapons of mass destruction. We should constantly be reviewing our policies, constantly be looking at those sanctions to make sure that they are directed toward that purpose. That purpose is every bit as important now as it was ten years ago when we began it. And frankly they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors. So in effect, our policies have strengthened the security of the neighbors of Iraq, and these are policies that we are going to keep in place, but we are always willing to review them to make sure that they are being carried out in a way that does not affect the Iraqi people but does affect the Iraqi regime's ambitions and the ability to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and we had a good conversation on this issue. snip


http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2001/933.htm