Scientist: Gulf War Stopped Iraqi Nukes
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A scientist considered the father of Iraq's nuclear program said Thursday that his nation would have developed atomic weapons in the early 1990s had Saddam Hussein not ordered the invasion of Kuwait.
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Iraq had no stockpiles of biological  and chemical weapons before last year's U.S.-led invasion and  its nuclear program had decayed, the chief U.S. weapons  inspector said on Wednesday, contrary to prewar assertions of  the Bush administration.
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Statements by the Bush administration before and after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 on Saddam Hussein's weapons programs:
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'This is awful. I can't stop watching' Column Following the first Gulf War of 1991, the French social theorist Jean Baudrillard made the famous statement that "the Gulf War did not take place". It was seized on by academics, journalists, and pub intellectuals in the English-speaking world as a prime example of the absurdity and irresponsibility of French philosophy. When he died earlier this year, it was this bizarre comment of his that the obituary-writers fixated on. What did Baudrillard mean by it?â¦
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; Shortly before the U.S. bombing and invasion of Iraq last year, Saddam Hussein gathered his top generals together to share what came to them as astonishing news: The weapons that the United States was launching a war to remove did not exist.
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Some of the 380 tons of munitions missing from a weapons facility outside Baghdad could be used to trigger a nuclear bomb. BY COLUM LYNCH AND BRADLEY GRAHAM.
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WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programs had deteriorated into only hopes and dreams by the time of the U.S.-led invasion last year, a decline wrought by the first Gulf War and years of international sanctions, the chief U.S. weapons hunter found...
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UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 30-- United Nations weapons inspectors stumbled upon evidence of Saddam Hussein's elusive weapons of mass destruction -- a vial of potentially lethal chemical gas that was put in a U.N. storage box more than ten years ago and forgotten, officials announced Thursday.
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An independent inquiry has concluded that Gulf War illness probably does exist.
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Charles Duelfer, the chief of the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) -- the organization consisting of 1,400 British, U.S. and Australian military experts searching for Iraqi WMD -- announced that Iraq's nuclear program ...
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1991: The International Atomic Energy Agency placed a seal over storage bunkers holding conventional explosives known as HMX and RDX at the Al-Qaqaa facility south of Baghdad as part of UN sanctions that ordered the dismantlement of Iraq&#39;s nuclear program
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WASHINGTON  - Lung cancers among US veterans of the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites) could be linked to exposure to damaging substances from oil well fires or missile propellents, according to a report.
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WASHINGTON - National security adviser Condoleezza Rice on Sunday defended her characterization of Saddam Hussein's nuclear capabilities in the months before the Iraq invasion, even as a published report said government experts had cast doubt at the time.    In the run-up to the March 2003 war, Rice said in a television interview in 2002 that the Iraqi president was trying to obtain high-strength aluminum tubes to rebuild his nuclear weapons program...
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WASHINGTON - Undercutting the Bush's administration's rationale for invading Iraq, the final report of the chief U.S. arms inspector concludes that Saddam Hussein did not vigorously pursue a program to develop weapons of mass destruction after international inspectors left Baghdad in 1998, according to lawmakers and others briefed on the report...
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The chief U.S. weapons investigator in Iraq told Congress that Saddam Hussein destroyed his stocks of chemical and biological weapons and his nuclear weapons program had decayed to almost nothing by 2003.
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In Washington, in the tense months before war in Iraq, Charles Duelfer was confident. "Of course he is developing his weapons of mass destruction," the American arms expert wrote of Saddam Hussein.
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Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction before last year&#39;s war, the chief US weapons inspector has said. The Iraq Survey Group, which has been searching for the weapons in Iraq, said Saddam Hussein hadn&#39;t had any illegal weapons since the 1991 Gulf War.