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Current Events

FACTBOX-Bush administration statements on Iraq WMD

-- "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." - Vice President Dick Cheney, Aug. 26, 2002.

-- "Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons." - Bush, Sept. 12, 2002

-- "Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun, that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." -- Bush, Oct. 7, 2002.

-- "U.S. intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents. Inspectors recently turned up 16 of them -- despite Iraq's recent declaration denying their existence. Saddam Hussein has not accounted for the remaining 29,984 of these prohibited munitions. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed them." - Bush, Jan. 28, 2003.

-- "There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more ... We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more." Secretary of State Colin Powell, Feb. 5, 2003.

And more.

How can they be so wrong, with so many people so dead and still face themselves in the morning?

Arf (Because they DID find oil, Bow. Yep, yer right. The oil WAS there, WMDs an excuse.)

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