WMD Spin Continues

October 9, 2003

In the past day or so, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice has been very vocal about Saddam Hussein and his regime. She claims what he was doing before the war was justification for the war but uses generalities which do not support the existence of WMDs. She claims the following about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction:

1.  There is "hard evidence" of the threat posed by Saddam.
2.  Inspector David Kay found "proof of many illegal weapons programs."
3.  Saddam tortured and oppressed the Iraqi people.
3.  Saddam harbored ambitions to threaten the world with WMDs and he hide the programs.

None of these statements prove there were or are WMDs in Iraq, These words do not answer the fundamental question: Where are the WMDs Bush and his people talked about before and after the war?

The Bush Administration talked up the WMDs as one reason for starting an invasion of Iraq. Bush continues to say WMDs will be found. Still,  "Where are they?"

◊  Certainly Saddam was a "threat" in many ways but this is not a WMD.
◊  WMD "programs" are not WMDs.
◊  "Documents about WMDs" are not WMDs.
◊  "Threats to use WMDs" do not prove they existed or were available.
◊  "Harboring ambitions to have WMDs" does not mean he had them.

Repeatedly saying Saddam had WMDs does not make them real. You can say it a million times and it won't be the truth.