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>The flip side of this is that people who claimed there were WMDs there, still look at the Duelfer report and conclude, or guess, that they were moved to Syria or Iran. Results matter. And the result is that we haven't found any, and it's the conclusion of Bush's own people that they were destroyed in 1991.
It is the *public* conclusion that no WMDs were extant as of March 2003 (they were in fact there after 1991 as they were still being destroyed by weapons inspectors into 1995 after the Iraqis had sworn they were all gone.
My point again - we are talking about *public* conclusions.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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- Ben Franklin
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