However you want to spin it, weapons were never found and It seems to still weigh heavily on the conscience of Bush: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/19/george-bush-iraq-ukraine-speech
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I’m not going to go along with his rhetoric on the 9/11 stuff, but since we’re on the topic of the Middle East, I’m still waiting for evidence of those WMDs in Iraq that was used as justification for that part of the war initiated by George W. Bush.
Everyone was agreed at the time that Iraq possessed WMDs. It was only later that it was decided the intelligence was faulty. In any case, Saddam Hussein having WMDs was only one of several justifications for the Iraq invasion. Some were specific (e.g. Iraq's non-compliance with UN weapons inspectors, their attempted assassination of George H. W. Bush in 1993), and some were more abstract (harbouring al-Qaeda members, financing terrorism, human rights abuses, etc.). But the invasion was deemed justifiable on more than one ground.