[DJ MacWoW]

The entire world knew he had WMD. It was documented everywhere by everybody, and the UN voted to take him out. Enough of this shit.

Absolutely agree. I never thought we'd be fighting Code Pinkos on FR because one of them was running for President.

[Trumpinator]

http://www.salon.com/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/

On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior CIA officers. Bush dismissed as worthless this information from the Iraqi foreign minister, a member of Saddam’s inner circle, although it turned out to be accurate in every detail. Tenet never brought it up again.

Nor was the intelligence included in the National Intelligence Estimate of October 2002, which stated categorically that Iraq possessed WMD. No one in Congress was aware of the secret intelligence that Saddam had no WMD as the House of Representatives and the Senate voted, a week after the submission of the NIE, on the Authorization for Use of Military Force in Iraq. The information, moreover, was not circulated within the CIA among those agents involved in operations to prove whether Saddam had WMD.

On April 23, 2006, CBS’s “60 Minutes” interviewed Tyler Drumheller, the former CIA chief of clandestine operations for Europe, who disclosed that the agency had received documentary intelligence from Naji Sabri, Saddam’s foreign minister, that Saddam did not have WMD. “We continued to validate him the whole way through,” said Drumheller. “The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming, and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy, to justify the policy.”

[mad_as_he$$]

There is a fine point that keeps getting lost in this “discussion”.

Yes the whole world knew Iraq has/had WMD’s, we sold/gave them to Saddam in the 80’s.
What was being said at the time of the second invasion were words like ‘reinvigorated”, “restarted”, “renewed”.
If you take the time to go through all the actual reports of WMD’s found in Iraq then you can see that they were old stock-not new stuff.

Oh and the uranium was old stuff from the 80’s, nothing was found from the Wilson/Plame situation.