Weapons of Mass Destruction - Where are they?
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Saturday June 07, 2003 09:50
by Anonymous
"What they said"
"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction."
- US vice-president Dick Cheney, August 26, 2002
"Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons."
- President George W Bush, September 12, 2002.
"If he declares that he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world."
- White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, December 2, 2002.
"We know for a fact that there are weapons there."
- Ari Fleischer, January 9, 2003.
"We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorised Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons: the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have."
- George Bush, February 8, 2003.
"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal lethal weapons." -
George Bush, March 17, 2003.
"We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad. "
- Donald Rumsfeld,US Secretary of Defense, March 30, 2003.
"There are people who, in large measure, have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country."
- Donald Rumsfeld, April 3, 2003.
"I am confident that we will find evidence that makes it clear he had weapons of mass destruction."
- US Secretary of State Colin Powell, May 4, 2003.
"I never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country."
- Donald Rumsfeld, May 4, 2003.
"US officials never expected that 'we were going to open garages' and find weapons of mass destruction."
- US National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, May 12, 2003.
"I just don't know whether it was all destroyed years ago, whether they were destroyed right before the war, [or] whether they're still
hidden."
- US Major General David Petraeus, May 13, 2003.
"They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer."
- Donald Rumsfeld, May 27, 2003.
"For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction [as justification for invading Iraq] because it was the one reason everyone could agree on."
- US Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, May 28, 2003.
Comments (8 of 8)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8Funny, isn't it?
Before the war Bush and Blair would have us believe that Iraq was going to drop WMD on our heads at any second, that they knew exactly where they were and had to get rid of Hussein as he would happily give all these weapons to all the terrorists he was sheltering in his country.
Now, after the war, there is allegedly several tons of anthrax, VX nerve agent and various other bits and pieces at large in Iraq, along with all those terrorists who want them - and all of a sudden Blair reckons finding WMD isn't a top priority...
Is it too much to ask for a little internal consistency from our world leaders?
(WMD)
Is it too much to ask for a little internal consistency from our world leaders?
YES!!!
find the idea of Bush & Blair having weapons of mass destruction alot more worrying then Hussein having them.
Our so-called world leaders wouldn't be where they are if the weren't adept in all the finest arts of deception and intrigue ......
Expecting "consistency" from such like is bit like expecting an eel to stop wriggling ......
There has never been a more unpopular president. He was never elected. He actually lost. Nobody votes anyway. It's a sorry state. Thanks to Ireland for demonstrating at Shannon!
"Expecting "consistency" from such like is bit like expecting an eel to stop wriggling ......"
You mean that killing them is the only way to make them listen? Now there's a sentiment I don't disagree with ;)
Try the basement of 44 Parnell Square, Dublin 1.
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