At 11:10 PM 7/18/2003 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Government enters war without being attacked based on claim that the
> opponent has WMD. Information comes to light that these claims are false.
Actually, a large part of the justification for te war was based on the
fact that Iraq was continuing to pursue the acquisition of WMD's -
particularly nuclear weapons - and not that it necessarily already had
nuclear weapons. Moreover, I also recall Colin Powell mentioning mobile
biological weapons *production* facilities in his speech to the UN - again
reference to a program, rather than the acual weapons themselves, during
the justification period.
We already have one smoking gun that indicated that Iraq merely buried its
nuclear program, not dismantled it as required.
Moreover, given the past record of our intelligence on predicting the
acquisition of nuclear weapons by a country accurately, this fear was
certainly very real.
JDG
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