quotes about Wmd
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Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access to weapons of mass destruction. Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.
-- Al Gore -
We should be hell bent on getting those weapons of mass destruction, hell bent on having a credible approach to them, but we should try to do it in a way which keeps the world together and that achieves our goal which is removing the... defanging Saddam..
-- Carl LevinSource : "Senators Richard Lugar and Carl Levin Discuss Next Moves in Iraq". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. December 10, 2002.
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I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.
-- Daniel OkrentSource : "It's curtains for Okrent". Interview With Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.
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I share the administration's goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction.
-- Dick Gephardt -
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Within a week, or a month, Saddam could give his WMD to al-Qaeda.
-- Donald Rumsfeld -
We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.
-- Donald Rumsfeld -
Saddam's removal is necessary to eradicate the threat from his weapons of mass destruction
-- Jack Straw -
If we wait for the danger to become clear, it could be too late.
-- Joe Biden -
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To overcome this obstacle, and to discover and dismantle Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, UNMOVIC and the IAEA must interview relevant persons securely and with their families protected, even if they protest publicly against this treatment. Hans Blix may dislike running ''a defection agency,' but that could be the only way to obtain truthful information about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction
-- Joe Biden -
Saddam's existing biological and chemical weapons capabilities pose a very real threat to America, now. Saddam has used chemical weapons before, both against Iraq's enemies and against his own people. He is working to develop delivery systems like missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles that could bring these deadly weapons against U.S. forces and U.S. facilities in the Middle East.
-- John D. Rockefeller -
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.
-- John F. Kerry -
Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action.
-- John Yoo -
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Karl Rove told me about Valerie Plame's identity on July 11, 2003. I called him because Ambassador Wilson was in the news that week. I didn't know Ambassador Wilson even had a wife until I talked to Karl Rove, and he said that she worked at the Agency and worked on WMD.
-- Karl Rove -
Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it,
-- Karl Rove -
Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.
-- Madeleine Albright -
The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
-- Oliver Stone -
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No one from the intelligence community, anyplace else ever came in and said, ‘What if Saddam is doing all this deception because he actually got rid of the WMD and he doesn't want the Iranians to know?' Now somebody should have asked that question. I should have asked that question. Nobody did. Turns out that was the most important question in terms of the intelligence failure that never got asked.
-- Stephen Hadley -
Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.
-- Timothy Garton AshSource : "New world disorder" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.
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Whereas Iraq has consistently breached its cease-fire agreement between Iraq and the United States, entered into on March 3, 1991, by failing to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction program, and refusing to permit monitoring and verification by United Nations inspections; Whereas Iraq has developed weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological capabilities, and has made positive progress toward developing nuclear weapons capabilities
-- Tom Harkin -
Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.
-- Tony Blair -
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One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites.
-- Victoria ClarkSource : "Letters to the Editor". thetimes-tribune.com. May 23, 2010.
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I am absolutely convinced that there are weapons...I saw evidence back in 1998 when we would see the inspectors being barred from gaining entry into a warehouse for three hours with trucks rolling up and then moving those trucks out.
-- William Cohen -
Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction.
-- Richard Myers -
The fact is that there is now, we know well, a proliferation of nuclear weapons, and that many weapons that Saddam Hussein had, we don't know where they are. That means terrorists have access to all of that.
-- Paul Martin -