[Pelham]

“Even the NYT’s admitted they had wmd’s”

And what did the NY Times writers claim that these WMDs were?

For a year Dubya had the 1,000 man Iraq Survey Group inspect Iraq for evidence of WMDs. The only ones that they found were chemical artillery shells manufactured prior to Gulf War I.

The laboratories for nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons were all dilapidated and showed no evidence of having been used for years.

This is all in the Duelfer Report, the final report of the Iraq Survey Group commissioned by Dubya. Dubya has publicly accepted it as accurate. It’s been available online for years. No one reads it.

[Bob434]

[[The laboratories for nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons were all dilapidated and showed no evidence of having been used for years.]]

Yeah, this is why Saddams own people had and used chemical suits- because their chemical weapons of mass destruction were so ineffective-

Look- everyone knows He shipped wmd’s out of his country- stalled the inspectors while he did so- people on the ground there knew it was happening- His own people knew it and stated such-

[Bob434]

Noone reads it, you're right:

 

 

• Slam dunk, right?  Bush lied.

  Not so fast.  First, the ISG did find WMD.  In fact, it found at least 53 of them. 

  'Beginning in May 2004, ISG recovered a series of chemical weapons from Coalition military units and other sources.  A total of 53 munitions have been recovered.' 

  Why haven't you heard that?  Possibly because that information was buried on page 97 of Annex F of Volume 3 of the Duelfer Report.

  Even if the number of WMD found were short of the 'large stockpiles' threshold demanded by invasion critics, what about the ability to produce and use WMD in a short amount of time?  Here, the Duelfer Report is explicit.

   

•   '[Saddam Hussein] wanted to end sanctions while preserving the capability to reconstitute his weapons of mass destruction (WMD) when sanctions were lifted.'

   

   

•  'we have clear evidence of his intent to resume WMD production as soon as sanctions were lifted'

   

   

•  'Saddam did express his intent to retain the intellectual capital developed during the Iraqi Nuclear Program.'

   

   

•  'Iraq took steps to conceal key elements of its program and to preserve what it could of the professional capabilities of its nuclear scientific community.'

   

   

•  'ISG found a limited number of post—1995 activities that would have aided the reconstitution of the nuclear weapons program once sanctions were lifted.'

   

   

•  'Saddam never abandoned his intentions to resume a CW effort when sanctions were lifted and conditions were judged favorable.'

   

   

•  'Iraq's historical ability to implement simple solutions to weaponization challenges allowed Iraq to retain the capability to weaponize CW agent when the need arose.'

   

   

•  'Iraq Could Maintain CW Competence With Relative Ease'

   

   

•  'ISG judges that Iraq's actions between 1991 and 1996 demonstrate that the state intended to preserve its BW capability and return to a steady, methodical progress toward a mature BW program when and if the opportunity arose.'

   

   

•  'Depending on its scale, Iraq could have re—established an elementary BW program within a few weeks to a few months of a decision to do so...'

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2005/03/no_wmds_really.html