weapons that Iraq had were destroyed therefore the war was a "necessity". Someone needs to call her on this.
Wrong on both counts. Witness a 27 year CIA veteran.... more at link
http://www.democracynow.org/print.pl?sid=03/07/15/1423259>>RAY MCGOVERN: It's more sorry. It's a problem not only of government dissembling but also the press being a willing partner in this. And I cite the example used before of Obeidi, the scientist who was very much in charge of the nuclear program. He was the one that brought the press back to his rose bush and showed where some little parts of the centrifuge operation and also some blue prints were found. Now the press played that up as this:
See? Those Iraqis they were saving the nuclear parts, see how clever they are, they're going to the back yard under a rose bush of all places. That's not the story. The story was that when they asked Obeidi why he hid them there, he said, I was instructed back in 1991 to hide these small parts and these blue prints, and I was instructed to await the order to start working on this stuff again. We would reconstitute the nuclear program perhaps some time in the future. Question, did you ever receive that order?
Obeidi: No, that order never came. What does that mean? Well that means that Saddam Hussein's soninlaw, Hussein Kamel who defected to us in 1995, was telling the truth when he said that, at his order-- and he was in charge of all these programs--at his order, all the chemical and biological weaponry and resources were destroyed.
Did we believe that, all ? We couldn't believe that. We said, Kamel tell us the truth. He said, well we kept the few little parts and kept the know-how and blue prints, but in effect the programs were destroyed and the weaponry was destroyed. Well, here is proof positive that he was telling the truth. And the western press missed that whole point.<<