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In reply to the discussion: The reason we're still fighting a pitched battle over the IWR: Revisionist History [View all]Hippo_Tron
(25,453 posts)Did Pat Leahy and the rest of the world believe that Saddam had some form of chemical and/or biological weapons? Yes, he did because Saddam was hell bent on convincing the world that he had those weapons in order to deter Iran and other adversaries from attacking.
Was Pat Leahy convinced that Saddam was anywhere even in the realm of nuclear capability or that he was seriously considering handing over any form of weapons to Al Qaeda? I highly doubt it.
If Bush's justification for war was that Saddam Hussein still had some chemical and biological weapons laying around, there would've never been any war because that kind of threat doesn't come close to justifying the blood and treasure of a war. His argument was that Saddam was aggressively pursuing nuclear weapons and that he was planning to supply weapons to Al Qaeda. Both of those claims were dubious at best even with the "evidence" presented and people knew at the time they were dubious.