Who made the decision that Iraq "Did not have WMD?"?

Question

In an article today that suggests US intelligence faults (see: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071204/ap_o... (TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent )

Hunt states:
"The conviction that Saddam Hussein had such weapons was one of the factors behind Bush's decision to invade Iraq. It since has been determined that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction."

I'm not sure if Terrance Hunt with the AP is an "Intelligence Authority" to make such claims?

At first, Iraq told UNSCOM that it had produced an estimated 250 tons of tabun and 812 tons of sarin. In 1995, Iraq changed its estimates and reported it had produced only 210 tons of tabun and 790 tons of sarin.

Iraq claimed that its chemical weapons program yielded a total of 3,859 tons of useable agents. Iraq insisted that it only weaponized 3,315 tons and consumed 80% of those weaponized agents during the war with Iran.

Iraq filled thousands of munitions with sarin or its binary components

Answer 1

Didnt know anyone said that they didnt HAVE WMD. It is apparent however that they didnt FIND any. I suppose after enough warnings and time that a person could hide or move ANYTHING.

Answer 2

The inspectors were THERE. They told everyone there was nothing, nothing at all.

You can't beat the testimony of eye-witnesses without an agenda.

American intelligence pretty much sucks these days anyway, because the agency is totally demoralized.

Answer 3

My brother went over there twice and there may have been wepons of mass destruction... Even if there weren't, they certainly had mass wepons of destruction. My brother was an E.O.D. over there and only a day of work (collecting wepons and blowing them up) would produce an explosion cloud of over 1,000 feet up. It was bad. He said that there were rooms full of gun ammo and other stuff up to more than 6 feet high...

Answer 4

Scott ritter, the american UN inspector at the time said bush was lying,, this is one reason the UN would not support it

there was no intel except what the bush admin made up

Answer 5

the same agencies that say IRAN is not as bad as Bush has made them sound for the past few months.

Bush and Chenney had advanced knowledge of these findings on Iran, yet continually bombarded the public with more FALSE claims on IRAN, just like they did with IRAQ.

Answer 6

All of the people who watched the U.S. Military search for WMDs in Iraq - and not find any.
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Answer 7

The Media