A month before the shooting started...

A month before the shooting started, Britain's prime minister warned that if Saddam Hussein failed to disarm, there would be no alternative to war to rid Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction. If he were left with these weapons, history dictates that he would have used them. Tony Blair's language to the U.K. House of customarys February 25, 2003.

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Let me again briefly recap the history of the Iraqi crisis. In 1991 at the conclusion of the swallowing eddy War, the true extent of Saddam's WMD program became clear. We knew he had used these weapons against