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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Land Shark who wrote (97476)	5/4/2007 1:28:54 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 173976

its last secret factory, a biological weapons plant, eliminated in 1996. Holy cow, Bill Clinton's repeated bombing of Iraq didn't destroy any WMD's? Mr. Duelfer said that even during those years, Saddam Hussein had aimed at "preserving the capability to reconstitute his weapons of mass destruction when sanctions were lifted." But he said he had found no evidence of any concerted effort by Iraq to restart the programs. ..... Mr. Duelfer said he had concluded that between 1991 and 2003, Mr. Hussein had in effect sacrificed Iraq's illicit weapons to the larger goal of winning an end to United Nations sanctions. But he also argued that Mr. Hussein had used the period to try to exploit avenues opened by the sanctions, especially the oil-for-food program, to lay the groundwork for a plan to resume weapons production if sanctions were lifted. Yes, Saddam wanted sanctions lifted so he could rebuild his WMD programs. The puzzle is why he didn't satisfy the UNSCOM inspectors over the previous 12 years. He quibbled about cooperating with them the entire time, delaying inspections, declaring vast areas off limits - iow acting like someone hiding WMD's. The findings uphold Iraq's prewar insistence that it did not possess chemical or biological weapons. They also show the enormous distance between the Bush administration's own prewar assertions, based on reports by American intelligence agencies, and what a 15-month inquiry by American investigators found since the war. Note that the report denies the Bush adm lied meme the leftwingers falsely employ.