Let's not forget we went to war becasue Saddam HAD Biological and chemical weapons, not becausue he had the tech and scientists to make them. The tech and know-how was the source of the nuclear concern. If we don't find actual chem and bio WMDs then a primary reason we went to war was either an "innocent" failure of intelligence or the intelligence was
purposely distorted, which has been claimed by intelligence insiders.
Of course if the intelligence was purposely distorted, this would only serve to create controvery after the war when no WMDs were found. Was this a calculated risk that was taken that he public would conviently forget all the pre-war hype or just a different sort of "intelligence" failure?
[ 08-04-2003, 01:41 AM: Message edited by: Chewbacca ]