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...supposed weapons of mass destruction and the need for a U.S. invasion to eliminate the world of this “mass murderer” who according President George Bush had “the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.” There were daily statements from the White House to prepare the American public for this war. To support the claim that Saddam Hussein had WMDs the Kurdish chemical weapons episode of 1988 was brought up again and again fifteen years later. Interestingly, the US blamed Iran...
...have not been translated or thoroughly analyzed. "You should see the warehouse in Qatar where we have this stuff," said a high-ranking former U.S. intelligence official. "We'll never be able to get through it all. Who knows?" he added, with a laugh. "We may even find the VX [nerve gas] in one of those boxes...
WHAT WE THOUGHT THEN In the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, the CIA stated that "Baghdad has begun renewed production of mustard, sarin, GF and VX." During his prewar presentation to the U.N., Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed that satellite photos taken in May 2002 showed the movement of chemical weapons from a factory to the field...
...moment the U.N. inspectors were kicked out in '98, this is the proper language: there were substantial quantities of botulinum and aflatoxin, as I recall, some bioagents, I believe there were those, and VX and ricin, chemical agents, unaccounted for. Keep in mind, that's all we ever had to work on. We also thought there were a few missiles, some warheads, and maybe a very limited amount of nuclear laboratory capacity...
...their stores. The idea is that they would destroy quantities of weapons (creating a disposal site and eyewitnesses, if not written records) and claim to have got rid of everything yet actually hold on to some of it. The Mukhabarat captain concedes that scientists kept small amounts of VX and mustard gas for future experiments. "I saw it myself, several times," he says...