TIME -- Latest Evidence, Saddam has not had WMD's for years

Chasing a Mirage

EL - As was obvious to me based on foreign sources and alternative sources a year ago, Iraq had ended most WMD programs after Gulf War 1 and all programs by 94 or so. The problem was they destroyed a lot of the documentation that the inspectors wanted and the inspectors, led by the US, would always assume the worst. Unless they could clearly document destruction they assumed they still existed. If they briefly had a chemical weapons plant the US would calculate what that plant could produce if it operated 24/7 as long as it existed even when they were presented evidence it didn't. The neo-conservative were scaring themselves much like they scared themselves over the Soviet Union earlier. This may not be wholly a bad thing, but it is when you a team even further hyping the evidence for an illegal war that took place too early for international support.