Of Course He Had Them… Maybe
June 23rd, 2003
Here’s a good blog entry detailing two and a half dozen prominent statements by Bush and his officials swearing up and down that Hussein had massive stocks of all sorts of WMD, and we knew it for a fact including where they were.
Note how, as time goes by in these chronological quotes, there is a wee bit of backpedaling. And of course, you can be assured that this is only a very partial list.
And let’s not forget some of the other scary quotes:
“A report came out of the Atomic — the IAEA — that they were six months away from developing a weapon. I don’t know what more evidence we need.” — George Bush, September 7, 2002We know (Iraqi President Saddam Hussein) has been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has in fact reconstituted nuclear weapons.” — Dick Cheney, March 25, 2003