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"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." -- President
Bush, Sept. 12, 2002.
"The Iraqi regime possesses and produces chemical and
biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons." -- Bush, Oct. 7,
2002.
"We've also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has
a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that would be
used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas.
We're concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using the UAVs for
missions targeting the United States." -- Bush, Oct. 7, 2002.
"The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its
nuclear weapons program. Saddam Hussein has held numerous meetings with
Iraqi nuclear scientists, a group he calls his 'nuclear mujahideen' --
his nuclear holy warriors. Satellite photographs reveal that Iraq is
rebuilding facilities at sites that have been part of its nuclear
program in the past."-- Bush, Oct. 7, 2002.
"We know for a fact there are weapons there." -- White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, Jan. 9, 2003.
"Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the
materials to produce as much as 500 tons of Sarin, mustard and VX nerve
agent." -- Bush, Jan. 28, 2003.
"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.
"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." -- Bush, March 17, 2003.
"Well, there is no question that we have evidence and
information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and
chemical particularly." -- Fleischer, March 21, 2003.
"I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of
weapons of mass destruction." -- Kenneth Adelman, Defense Policy Board,
March 23, 2003.
"We know where they are. They are in the area around
Tikrit and Baghdad." -- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, March 30,
2003.
"We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so." -- Bush, May 3, 2003.
"I never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country." -- Rumsfeld, May 4, 2003.
"U.S. officials never expected that we were going to open garages and
find weapons of mass destruction." -- National security adviser
Condoleezza Rice, May 12, 2003.
"They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer." -- Rumsfeld, May 27, 2003.
"We based our decisions on good, sound intelligence, and the -- our
people are going to find out the truth. And the truth will say that
this intelligence was good intelligence. There's no doubt in my mind."
-- Bush, July 17, 2003.
To quote Bill O'Reilly of Fox News: "And I said on my
program, if, if the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and
it's clear he had nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will
not trust the Bush administration again." -- March 18, 2003.
If you believe a single word these people say, what does that say about you and your judgement?
