So it appears that Saddam Hussein bluffed and lost. (But then who won?) He didn’t have anything but intentions to build weapons he could use against his neighbors, and for that, 1000+ US servicemen and women are dead, thousands wounded, with tens of thousands of Iraqis . . . . washingtonpost.com: Report Discounts Iraqi Arms Threat:
[T]he 1,000-page report by Charles A. Duelfer, the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, concluded that Hussein had the desire but not the means to produce unconventional weapons that could threaten his neighbors or the West. President Bush has continued to assert in his campaign stump speech that Iraq had posed “a gathering threat.”
The officials said Duelfer, an experienced former United Nations weapons inspector, found that the state of Hussein’s weapons-development programs and knowledge base was less advanced in 2003, when the war began, than it was in 1998, when international inspectors left Iraq.
“They have not found anything yet,” said one U.S. official who had been briefed on the report.
Are we so sure the world is safer with Saddam in prison instead of in Iraq? I expect we’ll hear more about this in Friday’s debate.
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