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It's more of a semantics issue from bad intel and some FUDdy massaging of the definitions along the way, but I see how you got there. Iraq had chemical weapons,
by washadjeffmad 12y ago
It's more of a semantics issue from bad intel and some FUDdy massaging of the definitions along the way, but I see how you got there. Iraq had chemical weapons, and, if you've seen the news, we found them in 2006, although it wasn't publicly confirmed until recently. The use of the label "WMD" is the matter in contention.
Some chemical weapons can be WMDs, but these weren't. They also weren't active, and they weren't the type or scale that could be used in modern warfare. The situation was closer to cleaning out an old chemical factory than a race against time to find and disarm fleets of intercontinental missiles primed for launch from secret subterranean silos across the country.