[okie01]

1) Remember, not just the CIA, but every single intel agency in the world said Saddam had WMDs: Br., Fr., Israel, Russia, China, the UN, and both Mubarak of Egypt and Hussein of Jordan all said he had WMDs. There were others.

In the same vein, recall that our ol' buddy, Joe Wilson, spent the months immmediately prior to the Iraq invasion lecturing on college campuses against an invasion because Saddam had WMD...and would use them.

[ScaniaBoy]

Spot on! And French president Chirac - a staunch opponent of the Iraq war - also warned for a carnage worse than WWI.

And he should have known, since France had broken the boycott against Iraq and had started to sell dual use technologies to Saddam (again!)