Listen, I know that this is pedantic, but it bears repeating in the face of this:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Secretary of State Colin Powell Thursday defended the Bush administration’s position that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction programs and defended his speech on the matter to the United Nations last February.
“This game is still unfolding,” he told reporters.
He was responding to a study that found Iraq had ended its programs by the mid-1990s and did not pose an immediate threat to the United States before the 2003 war. Powell said he had not read the report but read news reports about it.
Iraq had WMDs. This is a fact. We found them after the first Gulf War. The only question is what happened to those WMDs. And for what it’s worth, if Saddam destroyed them, then he was in patent violation of several UN resolutions that demanded that they only be destroyed under international supervision.
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