04-25-2013, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by theking
It was reported during the conflict...that small amounts of this or that kind of WMD was found...the ability to reconstitute etc...and various types of U.N. violations. It was reported time and time again that Iran was assisting Iraq in various ways. Nothing in the Wikileaks is new so that would be the reason it was/has been "ignored".
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i'm refreshing my memory on this, but so far
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On May 27, 2003, a secret Defense Intelligence Agency fact-finding mission in Iraq reported unanimously to intelligence officials in Washington that two trailers captured in Iraq by Kurdish troops "had nothing to do with biological weapons." The trailers had been a key part of the argument for the 2003 invasion; Secretary of State Colin Powell had told the United Nations Security Council, "We have firsthand descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails.
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In a speech before the World Affairs Council of Charlotte, NC, on April 7, 2006, President Bush stated that he "fully understood that the intelligence was wrong, and [he was] just as disappointed as everybody else" when U.S. troops failed to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.[86]
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