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No WMD? Whatever.(Insider Report)

The New American

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"We found the weapons of mass destruction," insisted President Bush in a May 29, 2003 interview on Polish national television. "We found biological laboratories.... They're illegal. They're against the United Nations resolutions, and we've so far discovered two. And we'll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them."

Mr. Bush was referring to the discovery of two aging semi-trailers that supposedly served as mobile bio-weapons labs. It was later learned that they contained equipment used to generate hydrogen for use in spotter-balloons which monitor artillery fire.

In early October of this year, chief U.S. weapons inspector Charles Duelfer released his final report, concluding that Saddam's regime had no WMDs, had not produced any since 1991, and didn't have the capacity to produce any. After spending years clotting the air with dire warnings about Saddam's vast and expanding arsenal of WMDs, the president and vice president reacted to Duelfer's report by insisting that it offered a new rationale lot the war. ...

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