Re: Powell and Rice
"And even though we have no doubt in our mind that the Iraqi regime is pursuing programs to develop weapons of mass destruction -- chemical, biological and nuclear -- I think the best intelligence estimates suggest that they have not been terribly successful. There's no question that they have some stockpiles of some of these sorts of weapons still under their control, but they have not been able to break out, they have not been able to come out with the capacity to deliver these kinds of systems or to actually have these kinds of systems that is much beyond where they were 10 years ago."
-Colin Powell-
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So Powell admits Iraq is still pursuing WMD, still has WMD.....BUT....it's WMD program is WEAKER than it was before the sanctions. This is a MUCH different from the claim that Rice and Powell said Iraq did not have WMD.
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