re: OT - I hope y'all are ready for President Clinton *gag*

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GWB started the second Gulf War under the pretense that they had WMDs. His own intelligence said in the media that there were no WMDs, but he invaded anyway.

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Somebody in his intelligence may have....afterward. but it was widely reported in a media that hated him that his intelligence, the Israeli intelligence, British intelligence and even the Russian intelligence told us they had WMD. And, they found yellow cake which is used to make WMD.

In the introduction to this dossier (known to some as the “dodgy” dossier) Tony Blair confidently declared, ‘the assessed intelligence has established beyond doubt that Saddam has continued to produce chemical and biological weapons [and] that he continues in his efforts to develop nuclear weapons.’
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In fact, however, George Tenet, George W. Bush's CIA director, assured the President that the case for Saddam possessing WMD was “a slam dunk.” In this assessment, Tenet had the backing of all fifteen agencies involved in gathering intelligence for the United States. The National Intelligence Estimate of 2002, where their collective views were summarized, asserted with “high confidence” that "Iraq is continuing, and in some areas expanding its chemical, biological, nuclear, and missile programs contrary to UN resolutions.

The intelligence agencies of Britain, Germany, Russia, China, Israel, and France all agreed with this judgment. Even Hans Blix—who headed the UN team of inspectors trying to determine whether Saddam had complied with the demands of the Security Council that he dispose of the WMD he was known to have had in the past—lent further credibility to the case in a report he issued only a few months before the invasion:

"The discovery of a number of ... chemical rocket warheads in a bunker at a storage depot 170 km southwest of Baghdad was much publicized. This was a relatively new bunker, and therefore the rockets must have been moved there in the past few years, at a time when Iraq should not have had such munitions.... They could also be the tip of a submerged iceberg. The discovery … points to the issue of several thousands of chemical rockets that are unaccounted for."
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Now, whether the intelligence was correct, or not, can be debated, but it is clear that the intelligence gathered from multiple sources point to WMD's, being in Iraq.

Also, after his capture, Hussein himself, in an interview, admitted to making moves and statements with the intention of giving the intelligence community the impression that they had WMD's in an effort to stall off an invasion.
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