Iraq (2004) | A Failure to Find Iraq’s Weapons Calls into Question the Justification for War

My fellow Americans, there may be threatening amounts of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There may not be. We’re not sure. And if they are there, it may take weeks after military victory before we can launch a major effort to find and secure them. By then, they could be gone—that is, if they were there in the first place—perhaps in the hands of people who mean us harm. And after we defeat Iraq’s brutal regime, the people of Iraq will welcome US troops as liberators. Then again, within days, many of them could be shouting, “Yankee, go home” and calling for a new...

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