On the recordFebruary 3, 2004
Think. It took us 10 months to find Saddam Hussein. The reality is that the hole he was found hiding in was large enough to hold enough biological weapons to kill thousands of human beings.
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Rumsfeld emphasizes the difficulty of finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, using the example of Saddam Hussein's capture.
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