Quote:
Doc Block (interviewer): If you had to pick one, what is the one thing the American public doesn’t understand about Iraq?
Orth (Marine sniper): That there were WMD and the people talk about them all the time.
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I think that the word "were" is the important part of this exchange. Nobody argues that Saddam did have WMD, he had them some time ago, the question is whether or not he had a stockpile as of the time of the invasion, and the clear answer is that he did not. Yes, some old weapons, left over from Iraqs conflict with Iran are still around and have been found and used by insurgents, in addition to being found and destroyed by US EOD teams, but most of these weapons have degraded well beyond any sort of usefulness and when they have gone off, have barely injured anyone. The Iran-Iraq conflict was a long nasty war and left all sorts of junk all over the battlefields, including WMD. This enlisted Marine's assertion says nothing of consequence to the "did Saddam have WMD's or not" issue-if that issue even matters as to whether or not this war should have been fought in the first place.