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When will people realize that this WMD stuff is all BULLSHIT?

87 days of no weapons and counting.

[Iraqi Brigadier General Alaa] Saeed, perhaps the most senior weapons scientist to speak to a reporter since the war, says he would gladly accept a $200,000 reward U.S. officials here have quietly offered to anyone who can lead them to the poison gases, germ weapons and other illegal weapons that President Bush repeatedly insisted were secretly deployed in prewar Iraq. But Saeed said he cannot take them to what he insists no longer exists...
Saeed insists that the combined blitz of allied bombing and intense U.N. inspections in the 1990s effectively destroyed Hussein's chemical, biological and nuclear programs. U.N. sanctions, he said, stopped Baghdad from importing the raw materials, equipment and spare parts needed to secretly reconstitute the illegal programs, even after U.N. inspectors left the country in 1998...

U.N. inspectors who worked with Saeed for a decade confirmed his identity and role. They cautioned that the story he tells today is consistent with what he told the U.N. after 1995: that all chemical bulk agents and munitions, as well as many key records and reports, were destroyed by 1994...

Saeed arguably knows more than any other Iraqi about Hussein's former chemical weapons programs.

I'm dying for a rebuttal on this one here guys. Please, rebut me. Make me look like a jackass and show me that we weren't gulled into killing thousands of people so some half-wit could get re-elected. I'd consider it a favor.

Iraqi Weapons Expert Insists Search is Futile

Posted by mike at June 6, 2003 12:00 PM