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For the last time, Saddam had WMD because he used them against both the Iranians and the Kurds. He admitted to having them at the end of the Gulf War in 1991, and he never offered definitive proof to the UN that he had destroyed them.
We have also recently heard on ABC News (hardly a tool of the Bush administration) tapes of Saddam and his advisors talking about how to fool the weapons inspectors. Finally, remember that every major intelligence service, including the French, Germans and Russians, also believed Saddam had WMD.
Saddam was an incipient Hitler who had twice invaded his neighbors and was only waiting for the UN sanctions to collapse so that he could reconstitute his WMD program. The utterly corrupt UN was all to eager to give up, too.
Everyone asks what would have happend in the '30s if the English and French had stood up to Hitler. We'll never know. Finally, someone stood up to today's Hitler and forestalled a potentially ruinous war. As we translate and release more of the captured documents from Saddam's Iraq, history will judge that Bush did the correct thing.
Too bad people like Joe Conason is so blinded by irrational hatred that he refuses to see this.
