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In 2002, he was trying to sell the American people a war against Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein . But despite a wide selection of rationales offered to justify the thing, very few people were buying. When none of his advertising slogans seemed to be working, Bush had no choice but to employ a little old-fashioned puffery. They started promoting the idea that Saddam currently possessed significant weapons of mass destruction , poised to strike the United States and Britain. Public opinion quickly swayed in favor of military intervention, and the rest is history. Since the war, however, millions of Americans have concluded that they are victims of false advertising. None of the fabled WMDs has actually shown up, despite months of intensive searching. Prior to the 2001 al Qaeda attacks against the Pentagon and the World Trade Center , Bush and his administration were openly uncommitted as to whether there were any extant WMDs in Iraq: Before 9-11 2 Dec 1999 . During a debate in New Hampshire, Presidential candidate George W Bush declares: If I found in any way, shape or form that he was developing weapons of mass destruction, Id take em out. Asked if that meant he would overthrow Saddam, Bush said he was only talking about the weapons of mass destruction.
During a debate at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Presidential candidate George W Bush declares: We dont know whether hes developing weapons of mass destruction. He better not be, or theres going to be a consequence - should I be the President.
President George W Bush declares: The Secretary of State is going to go listen to our allies as to how best to effect a policy, the primary goal of which will be to say to Saddam Hussein: we wont tolerate you developing weapons of mass destruction, and we expect you to leave your neighbors alone.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair declares: The threat that Saddam Hussein poses is an issue in its own right, because the reason why the UN Security Council passed these resolutions was precisely because we know the threat that there is from the weapons of mass destruction that he has.
The intelligence picture the intelligence services paint is one accumulated over the past four years. It concludes that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, that Saddam has continued to produce them, that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes, including against his own Shia population;
During a speech at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum in Denver, President George W Bush declares: Its a person who claims he has no weapons of mass destruction, in order to escape the dictums of the United States Security Council and the United Nations - but hes got them.
During a speech at the Pease International Tradeport Airport in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, President George W Bush declares: Saddam Hussein is a man who has told the world he wouldnt have weapons of mass destruction, and yet he deceived the world.
During a speech at the Illinois Police Academy in Springfield, Illinois, President George W Bush declares: Saddam Hussein is a threat to America. Hes a man who said he wouldnt have weapons of mass destruction, yet he has them. Hes a man that not only has weapons of mass destruction, hes used them.
During a speech at Southern Methodist University, President George W Bush declares: He has weapons of mass destruction. At one time we know for certain he was close to having a nuclear weapon. Not only has he got chemical weapons, but I want you to remember, hes used chemical weapons.
During a press conference, President George W Bush declares: Some people say, Oh, we must leave Saddam alone, otherwise, if we did something against him, he might attack us. Well, if we dont do something he might attack us, and he might attack us with a more serious weapon.
Condoleezza Rice declares: He already has other weapons of mass destruction. But a nuclear weapon, two or three our four years from now - I dont care where it is, when it is - to have that happen in a volatile region like the Middle East is most certainly a future that we cannot tolerate.
Senate majority leader Bill Frist tells Capital Report : I am absolutely convinced, based on the information thats been given to me, that the weapon of mass destruction which can kill more people than an atomic bomb - that is, biological weapons - is in the hands of the leadership of Iraq.
His regime is paying a high price to pursue weapons of mass destruction - giving up billions of dollars in oil revenue. His regime has large, unaccounted for stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons - including VX, sarin, cyclosarin and mustard gas;
Then Secretary of State Colin Powell went to the United Nations for a Show N Tell presentation. He passed around recent surveillance photos taken of Iraqi WMD sites. According to Powell, the black-and-white pictures depicted a chemical weapons complex in Al-Musayyib, as well as 15 chemical weapons bunkers in Taji. Although the briefing was vague on many details, Powells exhibits were too specific and numerous to be ignored. Taken in total, they seemed to portray an ongoing biological and chemical weapons production effort under way in Iraq. After the United States finally explained what the deal was, the general consensus became: someone is gonna have to disarm that sneaky motherfucker.
In a speech, Senate majority leader Bill Frist declares: Iraq is a grave threat to this nation. It desires to acquire and use weapons of mass terror and is run by a despot with a proven record of willingness to use them. Iraq has had 12 years to comply with UN requirements for disarmament and has failed to do so.
In an op-ed piece published in the Washington Post , Senate majority leader Bill Frist declares: Getting rid of Saddam Husseins regime is our best inoculation. Destroying once and for all his weapons of disease and death is a vaccination for the world.
Vice President Dick Cheney tells Meet the Press : Lets talk about the nuclear proposition for a minute. We know that based on intelligence, that he has been very, very good at hiding these kinds of efforts. Hes had years to get good at it and we know he has been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tells Face the Nation : We have seen intelligence over many months that they have chemical and biological weapons, and that they have dispersed them and that theyre weaponized and that, in one case at least, the command and control arrangements have been established.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair declares: I have no doubt that we will find WMDs. But there has been a campaign of concealment by Saddam ever since he knew that UN inspectors were coming back into the country, and I have got absolutely no doubt that those weapons are there.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair declares: We know that he has stockpiles of major amounts of chemical and biological weapons, we know that he is trying to acquire nuclear capability, we know that he is trying to develop ballistic missile capability of a greater range.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair declares: On weapons of mass destruction, we know that the regime has them, we know that as the regime collapses we will be led to them. We pledged to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction and we will keep that commitment.
In Moscow, British Prime Minister Tony Blair wonders openly: Where is Saddam? Where are those arsenals of weapons of mass destruction, if they indeed were in existence? We dont know whether perhaps Saddam is still hiding somewhere underground in a bunker, sitting on cases containing weapons of mass destruction, and is preparing for blowing the whole thing up, bringing down with him the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
On May 1st, President Bush declared the end of combat operations from the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln , an aircraft carrier protecting the dangerous waters off San Diego harbor. In the aftermath of the fighting, none of Iraqs weapons caches were found to contain even slight traces of the offending materia...
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