“The Iraqi regime militarily remains fairly weak. It doesn't have the capacity it had 10 or 12 years ago. It has been contained. And even though we have no doubt in our mind that the Iraqi regime is pursuing programs to develop weapons of mass destruction -- chemical, biological and nuclear — I think the best intelligence estimates suggest that they have not been terribly successful.”
(Secretary of State Colin Powell, four months prior to 9/11 May 2001.)
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