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
If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is
once again misleading the world.Ari Fleischer December 2, 2002
We know for a fact that there are weapons there.
Ari Fleischer January 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.
George W. Bush January 28, 2003
We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of
mass destruction, is determined to make more.Colin Powell February 5,
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
So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of
mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think our judgment has
to be clearly not.Colin Powell March 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 17, 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
There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons
of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be
identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who
guard them.Gen. Tommy Franks March 22, 2003
I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass
destruction.
Defense Policy Board member Kenneth Adelman
March 23, 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
Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass
destruction U.S. forces find -- and there will be plenty.
Neocon scholar Robert Kagan April 9, 2003
I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a
measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction
will be found.Ari Fleischer April 10, 2003
We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi
scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed
some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them.
George Bush April 24, 2003
There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . .
so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that
country.
Donald Rumsfeld April 25, 2003
We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so.
George Bush May 3, 2003
I am confident that we will find evidence that makes it clear he had
weapons of mass destruction.
Colin Powell May 4, 2003
I never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction
in that country.
Donald Rumsfeld May 4, 2003
I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam
Hussein -- because he had a weapons program. George W. Bush May 6,
2003
U.S. officials never expected that "we were going to open garages and
find" weapons of mass destruction.Condoleeza Rice May 12, 2003
I just don't know whether it was all destroyed years ago -- I mean, there's
no question that there were chemical weapons years ago -- whether they
were destroyed right before the war, (or) whether they're still hidden.
Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, Commander 101st Airborne May 13, 2003
Before the war, there's no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had
weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical. I expected them to
be found. I still expect them to be found.
Gen. Michael Hagee, Commandant of the Marine Corps May 21, 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
They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the
answer.Donald Rumsfeld May 27, 2003
For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass
destruction (as justification for invading Iraq) because it was the one
reason everyone could agree on.Paul Wolfowitz May 28, 2003
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Who needs druids with these ones producing all that smoke
Well, Ari Fleisher is gone, dissappeared into the necon mist, yes?? |
