So we did not find WMDs that does not mean that he did not have them. Read this. something for you to realize why he was a threat.
by Robert Kagan & William Kristol
“When I left office, there was a substantial amount of biological and chemical material unaccounted for. That is, at the end of the first Gulf War, we knew what he had. We knew what was destroyed in all the inspection processes and that was a lot. And then we bombed with the British for four days in 1998. We might have gotten it all; we might have gotten half of it; we might have gotten none of it. But we didn’t know. So I thought it was prudent for the president to go to the U.N. and for the U.N. to say you got to let these inspectors in, and this time if you don’t cooperate the penalty could be regime change, not just continued sanctions.”
–Bill Clinton, July 22, 2003
FORMER PRESIDENT CLINTON is right about what he and the whole world knew about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction programs. And most of what everyone knew about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction had nothing to do with this or any other government’s intelligence collection and analysis. Had there never been a Central Intelligence Agency–an idea we admit sounds more attractive all the time–the case for war against Iraq would have been rock solid. Almost everything we knew about Saddam’s weapons programs and stockpiles, we knew because the Iraqis themselves admitted it.
Here’s a little history that seems to have been completely forgotten in the frenzy of the past few months. Shortly after the first Gulf War in 1991, U.N. inspectors
discovered the existence of a surprisingly advanced Iraqi nuclear weapons program. In addition, by Iraq’s own admission and U.N. inspection efforts, Saddam’s regime possessed thousands of chemical weapons and tons of chemical weapon agents. Were it not for the 1995 defection of senior Iraqi officials, the U.N. would never have made the further discovery that Iraq had manufactured and equipped weapons with the deadly chemical nerve agent VX and had an extensive biological warfare program.
Here is what was known by 1998 based on Iraq’s own admissions:
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years prior to gulf war. Iraq produced at least 3.9 tons of VX, a deadly nerve gas, and acquired 805 tons of precursor ingredients for the production of more VX.
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That Iraq had produced or imported some 4,000 tons of ingredients to produce other types of poison gas.
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That Iraq had produced 8,500 liters of anthrax.
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That Iraq had produced 500 bombs fitted with parachutes for the purpose of delivering poison gas or germ payloads.
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That Iraq had produced 550 artillery shells filled with mustard gas.
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That Iraq had produced or imported 107,500 casings for chemical weapons.
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That Iraq had produced at least 157 aerial bombs filled with germ agents.
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That Iraq had produced 25 missile warheads containing germ agents (anthrax, aflatoxin, and botulinum).
Again, this list of weapons of mass destruction is not what the Iraqi government was suspected of producing. (That would be a longer list, including an Iraqi nuclear program that the German intelligence service had concluded in 2001 might produce a bomb within three years.) It was what the Iraqis admitted producing. And it is this list of weapons–not any CIA analysis under either the Clinton or Bush administrations–that has been at the heart of the Iraq crisis.
that is some infromation from the weekly standered.
So lets say that Saddam did have nuclear weapons, and lets say he used one on the US. you would be calling Bush an idiot for not doing anything. you would be saying he had all the intelligence telling him do something and he still did not do anything. think about it. Saddam hates the US. He had plots to kill the first Bush. Saddam is a monster. A MONSTER that tested his own chemical weapons on his own people. you believe this guy was not a threat? UNBELIEVABLE.
