Jul 31 2003
There are no WMD
Despite vigorous efforts, the U.S. government has been unsuccessful so far in finding key senior Iraqi scientists to support its prewar claims that former president Saddam Hussein was pursuing an aggressive program to develop nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, according to senior administration officials and members of Congress who have been briefed recently on the subject.
The sources said four senior scientists and more than a dozen at lower levels who worked for the Iraqi government have been interviewed by U.S. officials under the direction of the CIA. Some scientists have been arrested and held for months, others have made deals in return for information and at least one has agreed to be interviewed outside Iraq.
No matter the circumstances, all of the scientists interviewed have denied that Hussein had reconstituted his nuclear weapons program or developed and hidden chemical or biological weapons since United Nations inspectors left in 1998. Several key Iraqi officials questioned the significance of evidence cited by the Bush administration to suggest that Hussein was stepping up efforts to develop new weapons of mass destruction programs.
There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Yet Mr. Bush is still determined that he will find some…
Bush indicated yesterday that he still expects evidence of weapons of mass destruction to surface in Iraq. He said Kay described a complex process that includes the need to “analyze the mounds of evidence, literally the miles of documents that we have uncovered.”
“It’s going to take awhile, and I’m confident the truth will come out,” Bush said.
Why? Because he knows that when he admits the truth, he is also going to have to admit that he caused the deaths of hundreds of America’s young men and women and thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians for a lie. He knows that he is going to have to live with that for the rest of his life, and he also knows that it will be the end of his presidency.
Mr. Bush is not the most intelligent man in the world, but even he is going to have to acknowledge the truth eventually.
Be sure to click on the headline and read the entire article. I am amazed at how we are treating the former Iraqi officials who have come forward to help us find the truth. My country just is not supposed to do things like that.
This is no longer the country in which I grew up. This is no longer the country I was taught to love. I hope it’s not too late to get my country back.
