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...preemptive spin from Bush and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice this week has been that Kay's group needs a lot more time to find WMD evidence. U.S. and British officials are also insisting that the belief that Saddam's regime maintained stocks of weapons of mass destruction had been conventional wisdom at the UN before the war - a point contested by former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix, who insists that what the UN inspection team maintained was not the existence of prohibited weapons per se, but rather that Iraq had failed to provide satisfactory answers to questions over...
...issue of WMD collaboration, we also have the startling testimony of ex-Navy secretary John Lehman. A member of Congress’s Sept. 11 commission, Lehman has been privy to classified intelligence on al Qaeda. “There is no doubt in my mind,” he told the commission in July, “that [Iraq] trained them in how to prepare and deliver anthrax and to use terror weapons.” It’s impossible to know, of course, just how strong the evidence to which Lehman referred might be. But if it?...
GIVEN THAT NO SIGNIFICANT STOCKS OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION (WMD) HAVE BEEN FOUND, SHOULD THE COUNCIL, OR YOU, FEEL VINDICATED? Most of the member states felt that the case for war was weak. In the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I think the case is weakened further...
WERE YOU SURPRISED WHEN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION WAS FORCED TO RETRACT SOME OF THE EVIDENCE IT HAD OFFERED ON WMD? We had weapons inspectors who took three years to prepare, and then were shut down in about 3 1/2 months, when [then U.N. chief arms inspector Hans] Blix said they needed more time. We've always felt in this organization that disarmament requires patience and time. And we didn't have it. I think what's happening in Iraq proves that that judgment wasn't entirely wrong...
...Where to Find the WMD I don't follow the circular reasoning in "The Next WMD Crisis" [July 28]. U.S. military action against North Korea would be justified because the country intends to survive with the help of nukes? Let's face it: Iraq was invaded because it did not have a sufficiently advanced nuclear program. Would it be any surprise if Iran and North Korea, the other two targets in the "axis of evil," are developing nukes of their own? If the U.S. is intent on spreading its insecurity around the world, that is what the world will become...