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WMDs in California? (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
Bush administration officials and loyalists continually remind us that Iraq is roughly the size of California. Supposedly this accounts for our inability to find Saddam's much-discussed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), which, according to President Bush, were so potent and plentiful that they posed a threat to our nation's very existence.
The president's pre-war rhetoric conjured images of U.S. cities disappearing into Iraqi-created mushroom clouds, or of unmanned Iraqi drones raining chemical or biological agents on defenseless Americans. In the war's aftermath, the president seized on the discovery of two rotting tractor-trailers, purportedly used as mobile biological weapons labs, as proof that Saddam had WMDs. This, despite the fact that there was no evidence that the tractor-trailers had ever served such a sinister purpose.
While an intensive search has ...
- Accountability on WMDs.(Editorials; weapons of mass destruction)
- Magazine article from: The Nation February 16, 2004 700+ words
...intelligence or must constantly question the hidden motives behind our foreign policy decisions. As Representative Jane Harman of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said after Kay's resignation, "The potential threat posed by...
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- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. January 29, 2005 700+ words
...Review Conference, which convenes in May at UN Headquarters in New York. In a speech last November at Stanford University, California, ElBaradei had called for agreement on benchmarks for non-proliferation and disarmament including adoption by all States...
- UPI NewsTrack TopNews, U.S. inspector reports on Iraqi WMDs.
- News wire article from: United Press International October 2, 2003 700+ words
...intelligence the Bush administration used to justify the war against Iraq. The three Democratic senators -- Barbara Boxer of California, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan -- told reporters they wanted to call attention to the "dangerous...
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- Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal Barry, Dave December 20, 2004 700+ words
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- 'Saddam's WMDs are in Syria'.
- Newspaper article from: Israel Faxx July 2, 2004 700+ words
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- Playing games with WMDs.(Up Front)(Weapons of mass destruction)(Unified...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Electronic Defense McKenna, Ted November 1, 2004 700+ words
...possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Can the US and its allies disarm this country of its WMDs without being drawn into a larger battle...scenario: disarming an adversary of its WMDs without being drawn into an all-out war...
- WMDs? What WMDs? (Insider Report).(Iraq's possession of weapons of mass...
- Magazine article from: The New American May 5, 2003 700+ words
...our forces if Saddam actually possessed WMDs, given that the dying regime would have...troops have yet to turn up the elusive WMDs. Amid saturation coverage of Baghdad...war--Saddam's alleged possession of WMDs--was all but forgotten. During an April...
- WMDs had little to do with Iraq invasion.(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario) July 8, 2009 700+ words
...had found no evidence that Hussein had WMDs. Secondly, you suggest that U.S. President...Iraq had he known that it possessed no WMDs. However, there is substantial evidence...always intended to invade Iraq and that WMDs were just his most public pretext; the...
