We don't know if there were WMD or not. It's not a false claim unless it's known to be false at the time, and we don't know what was there at the time.
They didn't even say they knew there was WMD, it was the fact that Saddam had gone to the trouble to buy off officials in governments. To recruit spy's in the inspection teams so they always knew it was coming. There were communications recorded of an inspection location being warned to move material on more than one occasion. The report by all countries took this into account. Why would Saddam go to all that trouble, risking war over the cheating and breaking the treaty again, if there was nothing to hide? That is what that was based on.
Sure, the CIA came out and said there was no WMD, soon after they found a squadron of fighter jets buried in the sand, they didn't know those were there, what if they had been WMD?
There was residue of Mustard agent in the Tigris river.
An Iraqi AF General said they had taken loads of WMD to Syria in Cargo planes.
We didn't search 100% of the country. That is not really possible.
The report that said they were absolutely sure there had no WMD? Done by the same agency that said there was WMD? Hello? Do you trust the first report less than the next? Why?
Bush would have been a monumental moron to ignore reports from all the members of the UN security council, that situation was such we have to assume Saddam had WMD, and he was an imminent threat to use it.
There is all kinds of speculation as to why he went to war, even though almost every democrat was in it with him and most of the talking louder. The speculation is without exception, idiotic. His friends were in oil, his daddy was in oil, his daddy was under threat from Saddam, blaugh blaugh blaugh ... Stupid.
Now what Intelligence Agency makes a definitive statement about an unproven negative? THEY DON'T, I don't know what the heck they were thinking, but that is absolutely not a professional evaluation. It sounds like a politically motivated superior took over and just made the report. Real officers would be canned over such a ridicules official statement that they can't know to that degree of certainty.
Any report that was credible would have said basically. We didn't find anything and we don't know if there was any. That is as definitive as you can get in that situation. Beyond that is unprofessional political bull.
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