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Iraq has WMD capabilities
-- According to George W. Bush, 2002-10-07 (Monday) >>

Iraq is seeking nuclear weapons >>

Iraq has biological weapons >>

In 1995, after several years of deceit by the Iraqi regime, the head of Iraq's military industries defected. It was then that the regime was forced to admit that it had produced more than 30,000 liters of anthrax and other deadly biological agents. The inspectors, however, concluded that Iraq had likely produced two to four times that amount. This is a massive stockpile of biological weapons that has never been accounted for, and capable of killing millions. >>

Iraq has chemical weapons >>

Iraq has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas. >>

We have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons: Rick Santorum
"We have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons. [...] Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent. Despite many efforts to locate and destroy Iraq's pre-Gulf War chemical munitions, filled and unfilled pre-Gulf War chemical munitions are assessed to still exist." -- Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., in a press conference, reading from a declassified portion of a report by the National Ground Intelligence Center, a Defense Department intelligence unit >>

Iraq is rebuilding facilities that it had used to produce chemical and biological weapons. >>

Iraq can use / deliver biological and chemical weapons >>

Saddam Hussein has used chemical weapons to kill thousands of people >>

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Iraq possesses ballistic missiles with a likely range of hundreds of miles -- far enough to strike Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, and other nations -- in a region where more than 135,000 American civilians and service members live and work. >>

Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. >>

Iraq is ( /could be) exploring ways of using UAVS for missions targeting the United States. >>

Sophisticated delivery systems aren't required for a chemical or biological attack
All that might be required are a small container and one terrorist or intelligence operative to deliver it >>