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Chewbacca, it's real simple:
Saddam agreed to disarm. We knew he had chemical weapons because he used them on the Kurds. He signed cease fire agreements saying he had WMD and SCUDS and he'd get rid of them. He never got rid of them, or if he did he did it secretly without documentation (an unlikely event).
What Hans Blix could or could not find spoke, at the time, more to Saddam's noncooperation than to the actual nonexistence of the weapons.
At the time, I actually believed he had WMD, based on hearing the administration's position and on my own independent research. I'm not going to call out the President for his belief when I think it was reasonable, based on the fact that I shared it. Democratic members of Congress may do this, but I will not.
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