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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.
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>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.
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>My point again - we are talking about *public* conclusions.

When the Bush administration's own team, lead by Duelfer, concludes the same thing, I would say the public is on more sound footing than those who conclude they existed and were moved to Syria and/or Iran.