At the time I was reading a ton of books about Saddam’s weapons program. I don’t remember all of their titles; I know one was Saddam’s Bombmaker. All sources reported a thorough system of making and procuring weapons of mass destruction.
While it was true that sometimes the generals or scientists would LIE to Saddam about what they had, because bad news would bring death to the messenger, they had quite the array of preparations for nukes again, and every kind of chemical and biological weapon imaginable.
Saddam was being ripped off financially daily, because his “diplomats” were in Europe paying 100s of times as much as they should have for ingredients and supplies to make weapons, with both the supplier and the “diplomats” receiving HUGE kickbacks.
WHY were these facts never available to the public? The world’s press is useless. Maybe books will be better sources than news in the future. Only the literate will be able to judge truths.
Right from the get go, we gave Saddam plenty of warning that we were coming, so he had at least 30 days to move his WMD’s and/or equipment and labs for developing WMD out of Iraq. I am certain a lot of stuff went to Syria.
I think no matter what proof exists about Saddam’s WMD (remember the Sarin gas he used on Iranians, then on Kurds?, liberals will still cry there were no WMD’s. Of course, if Barack Obama says there were WMD’s, then the liberals would believe him, as he is their Messiah and his word stands.
Sure describes the democratic party and main stream media's philosophy in recent history.
Bump