Quotes About Wmd

#1. The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.

Tony Blair

#2. It's really only nuclear weapons that deserve the WMD acronym.

Steven Pinker

#3. I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac, as I recall in April of last year, referred to Iraq's possession of WMD.

David Kay

#4. Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

Noam Chomsky

#5. Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it,

Karl Rove

#6. The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing.

David Kay

#7. I don't want to give the terrorists any ideas, but if I really wanted to cripple a city with biological warfare, my WMD of choice would have to be the toddler.

Jim Gaffigan

#8. The claims made about Iraq's WMD capabilities before the invasion were inaccurate, wrong, and in some cases, deliberately misleading.

Colin Powell

#9. A great deal has been accomplished by the team, and I do think it important that it goes on and it is allowed to reach its full conclusion. In fact, I really believe it ought to be better resourced and totally focused on WMD; that that is important to do it.

David Kay

#10. In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

Tony Blair

#11. I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.

Daniel Okrent

#12. The west coast is a mecca for wild hearts, wild minds, wild spirits and I'm a WMD - I've got so much energy I'm about to explode.

Shannon Mullen

#13. I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a 'deserter.' What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar, and a functional illiterate. And he poops his pants

Michael Moore

#14. Some people that work for Hot Pockets came to my Denver Paramount Theater show. They brought these hot pocket boxes the size of suit cases for me to sign. I wrote "these are WMD's" on the boxes. The HP people seem to have a good sense of humor about all of it.

Jim Gaffigan

#15. Karl Rove told me about Valerie Plame's identity on July 11, 2003. I called him because Ambassador Wilson was in the news that week. I didn't know Ambassador Wilson even had a wife until I talked to Karl Rove, and he said that she worked at the Agency and worked on WMD.

Karl Rove

#16. One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites.

Victoria Clark

#17. If the thumbnail version of the Iraq war was that Bush lied about WMD, the thumbnail version of Obama's war in Afghanistan is that the generals pushed him into a war he didn't want to fight.

Michael Hastings

#18. Within a week, or a month, Saddam could give his WMD to al-Qaeda.

Donald Rumsfeld

#19. If we wait for the danger to become clear, it could be too late.

Joe Biden

#20. Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.

George W. Bush

#21. I share the administration's goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction.

Dick Gephardt

#22. I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein - because he had a weapons program.

George W. Bush

#23. Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly ... all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes.

Ari Fleischer

#24. I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force
if necessary
to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.

John F. Kerry

#25. We should be hell bent on getting those weapons of mass destruction, hell bent on having a credible approach to them, but we should try to do it in a way which keeps the world together and that achieves our goal which is removing the ... defanging Saddam..

Carl Levin

#26. He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.

Sandy Berger

#27. I'm absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will be forthcoming. We're just getting it just now.

Colin Powell

#28. We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.

Madeleine Albright

#29. The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

George W. Bush

#30. Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.

George W. Bush

#31. The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

Noam Chomsky

#32. I am absolutely convinced that there are weapons ... I saw evidence back in 1998 when we would see the inspectors being barred from gaining entry into a warehouse for three hours with trucks rolling up and then moving those trucks out.

William Cohen

#33. Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?

David Mitchell

#34. Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find - and there will be plenty.

Robert Kagan

#35. We know for a fact that there are weapons there.

Ari Fleischer

#36. They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.

Donald Rumsfeld

#37. The fact is that there is now, we know well, a proliferation of nuclear weapons, and that many weapons that Saddam Hussein had, we don't know where they are. That means terrorists have access to all of that.

Paul Martin

#38. Saddam's removal is necessary to eradicate the threat from his weapons of mass destruction

Jack Straw

#39. We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.

Colin Powell

#40. We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.

Donald Rumsfeld

#41. Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

Tony Blair

#42. I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction.

Kenneth Adelman

#43. We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them.

George W. Bush

#44. I am confident that we will find evidence that makes it clear he had weapons of mass destruction.

Colin Powell

#45. If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again ...

Ari Fleischer

#46. We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.

Al Gore