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"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised," stated President Bush in a televised March 17th address. Those weapons, insisted the president in a March 6th statement, posed an existential threat to the United States: "I will not leave the American people at the mercy of the Iraqi dictator and his weapons.
Shortly after the invasion of Iraq began, Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke told reporters: "One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD [weapons of mass destruction]. There are a number of sites." Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told ABC News on March 30th, "We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat."
Months after the U.S.-led military coalition seized control of Iraq, no definitive evidence has emerged that the much-discussed WMDs exist. During a question-and-answer session following a May 27th address to the Council on Foreign Relations, Rumsfeld was asked about the missing WMDs. ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Were they even looking? (Insider Report).