[rdl]

> b) Iraq had no "weapons of mass destruction"; cite Hans Blix, others.

I think that overstates the case. There was no good proof they did have those weapons, and a lot of stuff was fabricated or blown out of proportion to support their having them, but there was also a lot of reason to suspect they had them (including that we/our allies had supplied them to Saddam the past!...plus prior use against the Kurds and Shia). I think the consensus opinion now is that Saddam was trying to make others (especially within Iraq) believe he had a viable WMD capability, but that he didn't have an active program at the time of invasion.

[specialist]

If the Bush Admin had found any such weapons, they would have bragged about it.