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Originally Posted by Graham
Rubbish. There's no logical conclusion that can be drawn from this complete *lack* of evidence!
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I'm not getting into a quote war with you. But its not rubbish. As Kay said it seems Saddam wanted everyone to think he had WMD. He refused to provide the evidence showing their destruction. He continued to try to develop WMD programs since the late 90's, the only problem being he was being conned by his scientists who took the money and apparantly didn't do anything. He broke 16 of the 17 resolutions over 12 years, many of which were chapter 7. All the intelligence services said there was WMD there, Blix DID say there was lots of WMD unnaccounted for and kept asking Iraq to show evidence of their destruction which they didn't.
Without the benefit of hindsight it is not rubbish to believe that it was a fair assessment they had WMD. What you were wanting was for Tony Blair to ignore his intelligence advisors telling him Iraq posed a WMD threat.