Guardian Unlimited: Iraq had no WMD: the final verdict
President George Bush now admits that stockpiles have not been found in Iraq but claimed as recently as Thursday that “Saddam Hussein had the capability of making weapons, and he could have passed that capability on to the enemy”.
The draft Duelfer report, according to the New York Times, finds no evidence of a capability, but only of an intention to rebuild that capability once the UN embargo had been removed and Iraq was no longer the target of intense international scrutiny.
An intention does not warrant a war. I’m sure there are many countries that intend to do lots of things, but that doesn’t mean we should risk the lives of our young men and women, and the civilians of the country in question. The key word here is “capability”. He (Saddam) did not have the capability to do what he intended to do.
How many people have to come forward with this before we open our eyes? How many ways do we have to be told? Bush got us into a war under false pretenses. And he refuses to back down, even after knowing the truth. And now we are in a huge mess. The people in Iraq are rising up and fighting against the American occupation. We need to get out of there. Too many people have died FOR NOTHING.
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