{"id":56,"date":"2005-05-09T22:15:19","date_gmt":"2005-05-09T12:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2005-05-09T22:15:19","modified_gmt":"2005-05-09T12:15:19","slug":"wmd-quotes-before-after-the-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"WMD Quotes Before & After The Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/strong><\/font>source:http:\/\/www.activeopposition.com\/WMD.htm<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n


\nSimply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
\nDick Cheney
\nAugust 26, 2002<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n


\nRight now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.
\nGeorge W. Bush
\nSeptember 12, 2002 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world.
\nAri Fleischer <\/strong>
\nDecember 2, 2002 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

The president of the United States and the secretary of defense would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction if it was not true, and if they did not have a solid basis for saying it.
\nAri Fleischer December 6, 2002<\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n

We know for a fact that there are weapons there.
\nAri Fleischer January 9, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.
\nGeorge W. Bush
\nJanuary 28, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.
\nColin Powell
\nFebruary 5, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons — the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have.
\nGeorge W. Bush
\nFebruary 8, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? . . . I think our judgment has to be clearly not.
\nColin Powell
\nMarch 7, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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.
\nGeorge W. Bush
\nMarch 17, 2003<\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n

Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes.
\nAri Fleisher
\nMarch 21, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. And . . . as this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them.
\nGen. Tommy Franks
\nMarch 22, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

I have no doubt we’re going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction.
\nDefense Policy Board member Kenneth Adelman
\nMarch 23, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites.
\nPentagon Spokeswoman Victoria Clark
\nMarch 22, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

We know where they are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.
\nDonald Rumsfeld
\nMarch 30, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find — and there will be plenty.
\nNeocon scholar Robert Kagan
\nApril 9, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will be found.
\nAri Fleischer
\nApril 10, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them.
\nGeorge W. Bush
\nApril 24, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country.
\nDonald Rumsfeld
\nApril 25, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

We’ll find them. It’ll be a matter of time to do so.
\nGeorge W. Bush
\nMay 3, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

I’m absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will be forthcoming. We’re just getting it just now.
\nColin Powell
\nMay 4, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

We never believed that we’d just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.
\nDonald Rumsfeld
\nMay 4, 2003<\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n

I’m not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein — because he had a weapons program.
\nGeorge W. Bush
\nMay 6, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

U.S. officials never expected that “we were going to open garages and find” weapons of mass destruction.
\nCondoleeza Rice
\nMay 12, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

I just don’t know whether it was all destroyed years ago — I mean, there’s no question that there were chemical weapons years ago — whether they were destroyed right before the war, (or) whether they’re still hidden.
\nMaj. Gen. David Petraeus, Commander 101st Airborne
\nMay 13, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Before the war, there’s no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical. I expected them to be found. I still expect them to be found.
\nGen. Michael Hagee, Commandant of the Marine Corps
\nMay 21, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we’re interrogating, I’m confident that we’re going to find weapons of mass destruction.
\nGen. Richard Myers, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff
\nMay 26, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

They may have had time to destroy them, and I don’t know the answer.
\nDonald Rumsfeld
\nMay 27, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction (as justification for invading Iraq) because it was the one reason everyone could agree on.
\nPaul Wolfowitz
\nMay 28, 2003 <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

It was a surprise to me then \u2014 it remains a surprise to me now \u2014 that we have not uncovered weapons, as you say, in some of the forward dispersal sites. Believe me, it’s not for lack of trying. We’ve been to virtually every ammunition supply point between the Kuwaiti border and Baghdad, but they’re simply not there.
\nLt. Gen. James Conway, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force
\nMay 30, 2003 <\/strong>
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