Weapons of Mass Destruction - Where are they?

national | miscellaneous | news report 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.