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We believe, from everything we have been told by the intelligence community, by 12 years of history with iraq, by the experience of the u.n. inspectors and by other intelligence agencies in other countries that saddam hussein had the intention to develop weapons of mass destruction and to have such weapons, and that was a sound judgment which i still believe to this day because he had had them in the past, he'd used them in the past.
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Colin Powell
We believe, from everything we have been told by the intelligence community, by 12 years of history with iraq, by the experience of the u.n. inspectors and by other intelligence agencies in other countries that saddam hussein had the intention to develop weapons of mass destruction and to have such weapons, and that was a sound judgment which i still believe to this day because he had had them in the past, he'd used them in the past.
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I come to this debate, mr. speaker, as one at the end of 10 years in office on the permanent select committee on intelligence, where stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction was one of my top priorities. i applaud the president on focusing on this issue and on taking the lead to disarm saddam hussein... others have talked about this threat that is posed by saddam hussein. yes, he has chemical weapons, he has biological weapons, he is trying to get nuclear weapons.
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The threat of saddam hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but as i said, it is not new. it has been with us since the end of that war, and particularly in the last 4 years we know after operation desert fox failed to force him to reaccept them, that he has continued to build those weapons. he has had a free hand for 4 years to reconstitute these weapons, allowing the world, during the interval, to lose the focus we had on weapons of mass destruction and the issue of proliferation.
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Yes, i think lots of people are eager to obtain weapons of mass destruction. but there's no evidence that he has weapons of mass destruction. there's been no evidence of him testing nuclear weapons. we have people that are in our face with nuclear weapons. we've got iran and north korea. we've got a problem with pakistan. you know, i don't know what to say about that. there's a whole lot of people that are going nuclear. and i think that saddam hussein is actually, with the evidence, the least able to use nuclear weapons and the least obvious offender in that area at this moment.
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