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...Where Are Those Weapons? The headline "Who Lost The WMD?" [July 7] suggested (correctly) that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to lose. This fact was well documented by the allied forces at the end of Gulf War I in 1991. As to what happened to these weapons in the intervening 12 years, I see only three possibilities: 1) they have been very well hidden in the California-size country, 2) they have been secretly moved out of Iraq into another country, or 3) Saddam voluntarily chose to destroy the wmd without maintaining any record or evidence...
...minds of many Americans, the chief rationale for going to war in Iraq was that a vast stockpile of WMD was ready and waiting for bin Laden or Saddam to use on Americans. Should no evidence of such weapons be found, what we have is a poorly explained war started for political reasons known only to Washington insiders. Many of us baby boomers remember a similar scenario for the Vietnam War. STEPHEN J. DOHL Concord...
Saddam did not have weapons of mass destruction. He may have been aggressive because he was frustrated by the arrogance of the U.S. What makes the Americans think they are the only ones who can responsibly use WMD? What makes them think they alone have the ultimate power to control every other country in the world? SUSAN CHAPMAN Toronto...
...Elusive WMD Why is everyone so quick to assume that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) do not exist [July 7] simply because we have not yet found them? We have not yet located Saddam Hussein, his sons or Osama bin Laden, but I don't think their existence is the result of manipulated intelligence. Mary Lynn Watson St. Joseph...
...George W. Bush & co. clearly fudged the truth about the threat of Iraqi WMD. The Administration's statements that the occupation would be short are also wrong. American men and women are dying in a distant land, with no end to the carnage in sight. If the President and his staff deliberately misled the American public and Congress, they should suffer the consequences. Brandon Bittner Spring City...