2002 Bush is enraged that UN weapons inspectors are not finding any hidden weapons.

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12. We are so ignorant of what's going on around the world...

The chief UN weapons inspector, Hans Blix, said yesterday that he suspected that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction,

He added that "in this respect" the war might not have been justified.

"I am obviously very interested in the question of whether or not there were weapons of mass destruction - and I am beginning to suspect there possibly were none," he said in an interview with the Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel.

Dr Blix, who retires next month, has previously condemned as "shaky" the evidence presented by British and American intelligence before the war, and said that it was "conspicuous" that they had failed to make significant discoveries after the war.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/24/iraq.rorymccarthy

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The disconcerting point is that Bush, Pelosi, Clinton (both of them), Kerry, etc. NEVER questioned the intelligence reports that there were WMD's prior to the war! How could our "intelligence services" (scare quotes intentional) have made such a catastrophic, persistent error over the 10 years since Bush 1 went in? We were and are being set up for a total loss of Civil liberties, IMHO.

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"In the next century, the community of nations may see more and more the very kind of threat Iraq poses now -- a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction ready to use them or provide them to terrorists, drug traffickers or organized criminals who travel the world among us unnoticed."

President Clinton
Address to Joint Chiefs of Staff and Pentagon staff
February 17, 1998