[prairiebreeze]

they were citing stockpiles that we knew to exist by Iraq's own admission

Yes! (Smacking my forhead here!) I believe you're right on that. Somebody didn't just arbitrarily come up with the number 49,000 liters (or whatever it was) of VX are unaccounted for. Thanks.

Prairie

[Mo1]

Yes! (Smacking my forhead here!)

Smacking my forhead here too!

[HenryLeeII]

If the Dems had bothered to listen to President Bush and Colin Powell and other administration officials, they never said that Iraq "had" WMD during the run-up to the war. They were citing the previously-acknowledged stockpiles, and also the fact that production facilities from the 1980s and '90s were still intact and seemed to be used for something which our satellites couldn't discern. Common sense says we could only assume they were being used as they had in the past.

Whether or not there are WMD in Iraq is not important. Every country involved said they did, some Dems said they did (during the Clinton years and also during 2002), they had them in the past and used them, and never accounted for the stockpiles they admitted to having. Also, with their concealment activities and cat-and-mouse games with UN inspectors in late-2002, we could only assume they were hiding something. Of course Dean is still insisting that Bush was claiming that Iraq was an immediate threat, so some people are just psychotic liars...