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Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has
weapons of mass destruction.-Dick Cheney
Speech to VFW National Convention
August 26, 2002
Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were
used for the production of biological weapons.-George W.
Bush
Speech to UN General Assembly
September 12, 2002
If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein
is once again misleading the world.-Ari Fleischer
Press Briefing
December 2, 2002
We know for a fact that there are weapons there.-Ari
Fleischer
Press Briefing
January 9, 2003
Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the
materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve
agent.-George W. Bush
State of the Union Address
January 28, 2003
We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of
mass destruction, is determined to make more.-Colin Powell
Remarks to UN Security Council
February 5, 2003
We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently
authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very
weapons the dictator tells us he does not have.-George W.
Bush
Radio Address
February 8, 2003
If Iraq had disarmed itself, gotten rid of its
weapons of mass destruction over the past 12 years, or over the last
several months since (UN Resolution) 1441 was enacted, we would not be
facing the crisis that we now have before us . . . But the suggestion
that we are doing this because we want to go to every country in the
Middle East and rearrange all of its pieces is not correct.-Colin
Powell
Interview with Radio France International
February 28, 2003
So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its
weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? . . . I think
our judgment has to be clearly not.
-Colin Powell
Remarks to UN Security Council
March 7, 2003
Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no
doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the
most lethal weapons ever devised.
-George W. Bush
Address to the Nation
March 17, 2003
Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information
that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical
particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the course of the
operation, for whatever duration it takes.-Ari Fleisher
Press Briefing
March 21, 2003
There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses
weapons of mass destruction. And . . . as this operation continues,
those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have
produced them and who guard them.
-Gen. Tommy Franks
Press Conference
March 22, 2003
I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass
destruction.
Defence Policy Board member Kenneth Adelman
Washington Post, p. A27
March 23, 2003
One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There
are a number of sites.-Pentagon Spokeswoman Victoria Clark
Press Briefing
March 22, 2003
We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and
Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.-Donald
Rumsfeld
ABC Interview
March 30, 2003
Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons
of mass destruction U.S. forces find -- and there will be plenty.-Neocon
scholar Robert Kagan
Washington Post op-ed
April 9, 2003
But make no mistake -- as I said earlier -- we have high
confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this
war was about and it is about. And we have high confidence it will be
found.-Ari Fleischer
Press Briefing
April 10, 2003
We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with
Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he
destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them.-George
W. Bush
NBC Interview
April 24, 2003
There are people who in large measure have information that we
need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in
that country.-Donald Rumsfeld
Press Briefing
April 25, 2003
We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so.-George
W. Bush
Remarks to Reporters
May 3, 2003
I'm absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction
there and the evidence will be forthcoming. We're just getting it just
now.-Colin Powell
Remarks to Reporters
May 4, 2003
We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass
destruction in that country.-Donald Rumsfeld
Fox News Interview
May 4, 2003
I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of
Saddam Hussein -- because he had a weapons program.-George
W. Bush
Remarks to Reporters
May 6, 2003
U.S. officials never expected that "we were going to open
garages and find" weapons of mass destruction.-Condoleeza
Rice
Reuters Interview
May 12, 2003
I just don't know whether it was all destroyed years ago -- I
mean, there's no question that there were chemical weapons years ago --
whether they were destroyed right before the war, (or) whether they're
still hidden.-Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, Commander
101st Airborne
Press Briefing
May 13, 2003
Before the war, there's no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein
had weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical. I expected
them to be found. I still expect them to be found.-Gen.
Michael Hagee, Commandant of the Marine Corps
Interview with Reporters
May 21, 2003
Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're
interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass
destruction.-Gen. Richard Myers, Chairman Joint
Chiefs of Staff
NBC Today Show interview
May 26, 2003
They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the
answer.
-Donald Rumsfeld
Remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations
May 27, 2003
For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of
mass destruction (as justification for invading Iraq) because it was the
one reason everyone could agree on.-Paul Wolfowitz
Vanity Fair interview
May 28, 2003
It was a surprise to me then it remains
a surprise to me now that we have not uncovered weapons, as you say,
in some of the forward dispersal sites. Believe me, it's not for lack of
trying. We've been to virtually every ammunition supply point between
the Kuwaiti border and Baghdad, but they're simply not there.-Lt.
Gen. James Conway, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force
Press Interview
May 30, 2003
Do I think we're going to find something? Yeah, I kind of
do, because I think there's a lot of information out there."
-Maj. Gen. Keith Dayton, Defense Intelligence Agency
Press Conference
May 30, 2003
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