Blah blah blah, none have been found or probably ever will be. It's "faith-based intelligence".
The evidence was ironclad enough to justify a military invasion, apparently, but not ironclad enough to actually be able to FIND once the country was
invaded.
And again, this "evidence" is spotty at best.
As to the referenced article in the last post:
MARK DAVIS: I mean, this is the incredible point, I suppose. We've just invaded a country, we've killed thousands of people and, despicable
as Saddam Hussein may have been, he was probably telling the truth.
RICHARD BUTLER: We need to know that, that's what I'm saying. It could well be that at that point, immediately prior to the war when they lodged
their 12,000 page document, that we may discover they were telling the truth in the sense that at that time they did destroy those extant weapons. We
need to know what the facts are to know whether the weapons of mass destruction justification for the invasion was real or not. It's very, very
important. We have four people---the US has four key people in custody now---General Saddi, General Rashid, Tariq Aziz and Dr Germ, Rihab Taha. They
know exactly what the facts are. We need to know what they're saying. We need to know on what basis they're being interrogated. We need the truth
about those weapons, Iraq's programs, did they give them to terrorists, for example, as has sometimes been claimed. We need the truth behind an
invasion and occupation by the United States, and its friends, of Iraq.
Again, we have him saying "we need the truth" because what we've got (probably from BOTH sides) is not the truth.
We DON'T have him saying that Saddam still had WMDs, we have him saying we don't know and someone in the administration, after all this time and
with all these high-ranking Ba'ath party flunkies incarcerated, should tell us the truth.
If there was ANY evidence of WMD's (physical not journalistic), the US would be plastering it EVERYWHERE because it would justify the invasion. So
far nothing, because that's what evidence they had in the first place, they just spun it like some sort of SuperDredel.
Oh and to underscore the spinnin, here's some good quotes:
Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
Dick Cheney August 26, 2002
Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.
George W. Bush September 12, 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 authorized 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 some of the most lethal
weapons ever devised.
George Bush March 18, 2003
Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly . . .
all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes.
Ari Fleisher March 21, 2003
One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites.
Pentagon Spokeswoman Victoria Clark March 22, 2003
We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.
Donald Rumsfeld March 30, 2003
Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction.
Gen. Richard Myers,
Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff May 26, 2003
[edit on 11-6-2004 by Jakomo]
