Depends on your perspective. For example the French said nothing could account for us going to war, not even if he had said weapons. Bottom line regarding the WMD's, if they aren't there (which I'll bet my life that they are) then this whole ordeal has been the biggest most massive failure of world intelligence. Saddam played the same games in 98' when Clinton was president, said he didn't have them. Then Hussein Kammel defects to Jordan and we find thousands of liters of anthrax. Nothing really happened to him then, Clinton flew in dropped a few bombs and left it at that.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair in his statement to the House of Commons on 25 February 2003, said: "It was only four years later after the defection of Saddam's son-in-law to Jordan, that the offensive biological weapons and the full extent of the nuclear programme were discovered."
President Bush declared in a 7 October 2002 speech: "In 1995, after several years of deceit by the Iraqi regime, the head of Iraq's military industries defected. It was then that the regime was forced to admit that it had produced more than 30,000 liters of anthrax and other deadly biological agents. The inspectors, however, concluded that Iraq had likely produced two to four times that amount. This is a massive stockpile of biological weapons that has never been accounted for, and capable of killing millions."
Colin Powell's 5 February 2003 presentation to the UN Security Council claimed: "It took years for Iraq to finally admit that it had produced four tons of the deadly nerve agent, VX. A single drop of VX on the skin will kill in minutes. Four tons. The admission only came out after inspectors collected documentation as a result of the defection of Hussein Kamal, Saddam Hussein's late son-in-law."
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