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Top myths of the Iraq campaign

At the very top of the top 10 list, of course, is the constant refrain that no WMD were found:

"Several hundred chemical weapons were found, and Saddam had all his WMD scientists and technicians ready. Just end the sanctions and add money, and the weapons would be back in production within a year. At the time of the invasion, all intelligence agencies, world-wide, believed Saddam still had a functioning WMD program."

This should include Saddam’s nuclear weapons program, which Christopher Hitchens recalls, if no one else does: "Saddam Hussein had built an enormous secret nuclear reactor at Tuwaitha, and had acquired most of the elements of a nuclear weapon." 

Via Strategy Page and The Claremont Review of Books