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Mark Kirk: “No weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? We know to a moral certitude of such weapons. How do we know? Saddam Hussein…”

On the recordJune 5, 2003
No weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? We know to a moral certitude of such weapons. How do we know? Saddam Hussein told us. On December 7 of last year, he told the U.N. that he owned 30,000 chemical weapons, but he forgot where he put them. We have not even found the chemical weapons that Saddam admitted to the U.N. he made. There are over 500 WMD sites in Iraq, and we have inspected less than half of them. Remember Dr. Hussein Kamel? The U.N. inspected Iraq for 4 years between 1991 and 1995 and found no nuclear program. Dr. Kamel then told us that 40,000 Iraqis worked on nuclear weapons, but our intelligence missed it all. WMD in Iraq, it is inevitable that a final chapter will be written in this story. As Paul Harvey would say, and then we will say, 'and now for the rest of the story.'
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Mark Kirk
Republican · Illinois

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Discussing the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq during a congressional speech.

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