Well this takes the cake: the Shrub Administration has admitted that there Saddam had no WMDs.
They must be feeling pretty confident about the outcome of the war to just come right out and say this.
Good news for Syria? If there are no WMDs in Iraq, then we can’t follow them over the border into Syria. Right?
I’m looking for other articles with more details, but here’s one from Neil McKay of the Sunday Herald to start you off with:
US: ‘Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction’
Senior officials in the Bush administration have admitted that they would be ‘amazed’ if weapons of mass destruction (WMD) were found in Iraq.
According to administration sources, Saddam shut down and destroyed large parts of his WMD programmes before the invasion of Iraq.
Ironically, the claims came as US President George Bush yesterday repeatedly justified the war as necessary to remove Iraq’s chemical and biological arms which posed a direct threat to America.
Bush claimed: ‘Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. We will find them.’
The comments from within the administration will add further weight to attacks on the Blair government by Labour backbenchers that there is no ‘smoking gun’ and that the war against Iraq — which centred on claims that Saddam was a risk to Britain, America and the Middle East because of unconventional weapons — was unjustified.
