[ajays]

Biological weapons are easy to make. Remember Aum Shinrikyo in Japan in the 90s? Or Jonestown? It would be a fair assumption that half the world's militaries have some sort of biological weapons. Granted, many of them won't be able to put them on missiles and launch them.

So claiming that the presence of bio-weapons in Iraq is some sort of a justification for invasion is just plain silly. If this was all that was needed, we would have invaded half the countries on this planet; many of them continue to be far worse than Iraq ever was.

[wnoise]

Neither of those examples are biological weapons. Aum Shinrikyo used sarin gas, a chemical weapon, in the Tokyo subway attack. Jonestown used cyanide, also chemical, but this wasn't at all weaponized.

In any case, the argument was based on the umbrella term "weapons of mass destruction".

You're right that as a justification, it falls far too short, even had it been true.