3/13/2002 - Bush actually says Iraq has WMDs

[zbdent]

Bush, on 3/13/2002, says that Iraq has WMDs - same day he said that he wasn't concerned about Osama bin Laden.

From the White House web site: (link: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html)

Q Vice President Cheney is on the road now trying to build support for possible action against Iraq. If you don't get that, down the road you decide you want to take action, would you take action against Iraq unilaterally?

THE PRESIDENT: One of the things I've said to our friends is that we will consult, that we will share our views of how to make the world more safe. In regards to Iraq, we're doing just that. Every world leader that comes to see me, I explain our concerns about a nation which is not conforming to agreements that it made in the past; a nation which has gassed her people in the past; a nation which has weapons of mass destruction and apparently is not afraid to use them.

And so one of the -- what the Vice President is doing is he's reminding people about this danger, and that we need to work in concert to confront this danger. Again, all options are on the table, and -- but one thing I will not allow is a nation such as Iraq to threaten our very future by developing weapons of mass destruction. They've agreed not to have those weapons; they ought to conform to their agreement, comply with their agreement.

[Blaubart]

1. ...and this is news?

We know they had WMD because we still have the receipts...