RexRed wrote:Where did the chemicals go then?
We know Saddam had them because some of the chemicals were used on the Kurds...
In
1988...
Many of those chemicals would be degraded now, seventeen years later, anyhow ...
And then there's the slight matter of the UN weapon inspection teams succesfully destroying the overwhelming majority of Iraq's WMD in the years after 1991; something the US government itself back then proudly trumpeted ...
That's why, when Powell claimed that the US
knew, for absolutely sure, that not just had Iraq once upon a time used WMD, it still had them right now, and the US intelligence knew exactly where, the other countries in the Security Council were highly sceptical ...
Rightly so, as it turns out.
But then we've gone through this cycle of arguments, including links and quotes on each of the above counts, a dozen times on this forum already - to be frank, I dont care to look them up one more time.