Posted on 10/07/2004 5:45:01 AM PDT by foreverfree
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WASHINGTON Saddam Hussein did not produce or possess any weapons of mass destruction for more than a decade before the U.S.-led invasion last year, according to a comprehensive CIA report released yesterday.
Saddam intended to someday reconstitute his illicit programs and rebuild at least some of his weapons if United Nations sanctions were eased and he had the opportunity, the report concluded. But the Iraqi regime had no formal, written strategy to revive the banned programs after sanctions, and no staff or infrastructure in place to do so, the investigators found.
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Actually I wondered why Saddam had chemical suits if he had no WMD? Who manufactured the suits and sold them to him, didn't the US find a ton of them when they reached Baghdad? Doesnt make sense, not logical.
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