“U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said Monday the Bush administration last year told him and other senators that Iraq not only had weapons of mass destruction, but they had the means to deliver them to East Coast cities.
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“Nelson said the senators were told Iraq had both biological and chemical weapons, notably anthrax, and it could deliver them to cities along the Eastern seaboard via unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones.
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“Nelson, D-Tallahassee, said about 75 senators got that news during a classified briefing before last October’s congressional vote authorizing the use of force to remove Saddam Hussein from power. Nelson voted in favor of using military force.”
I feel stupid having to point it out, but some people apparently haven’t gotten the memo: There are no UAVs. There are no weapons of mass destruction. There were never plans to attack the United States. The White House never believed any of these things to be true, but they knew that these lies would be powerfully effective.
But, hey, we got Saddam Hussein, and the people are free to have any kind of democratic non-Islamic non-representative selected-by-committee government that we want them to have, so everything worked out. After all, the ends justify the means.