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Early on administration officials claimed that Saddam had unmaned drones capable of flying nearly 7,000 miles to the U.S. and were capable of releasing chemical weapons on cities. I contacted sources like Jane's Defense Weekly and neither our European allies, nor does the U.S. military have such a drone with such a capability. Even the unmaned drones available today are not designed to carry heavy payloads, have limited range without refueling, and the chemicals would never reach ground level since it would easily be dispersed. Even dispersed at ground level;(as proved during WWI and during the Iran-Iraq war) chemical weapons proved unreliable since they were dependant on weather conditions such as everchanging wind currents. The press could have fact checked this in a few minutes time! The claim was not just wrong but absurd.
