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Originally posted by Dragonlich
Shakran, I take it you're the proof of my interpretation of the anti-war position. 
How are these "two old, dead weapons" *not* prove that Saddam had WMDs? It's not a gray scale thing we're talking about, it's an Either-Or situation: either he had them, or he had none. IF these weapons are shown to belong to the Saddam-era Iraqi army, it proves that he did have WMDs.
Now, does this prove that he had a *substantial amount* of WMDs before the last war? No, it does not. That cannot be proven with isolated discoveries of long-lost weapons.
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Actually, it proves that Iraq had delivery systems for WMDs, as the shells tested negative for chemicals.
No one is arguing that Saddam has had WMDs in the past...his use of them is well known. What is disputed is if the White House inflated the estimates of his present day stockpiles to sculpt public opinion towards war.