Some opponents of the war also believed that there would be no weapons of  mass destruction in Iraq, and thus there was little reason for an invasion.  Prominent among these was Scott Ritter, a former U.S. military intelligence officer  and then a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq, and who in 1998 had been  hawkish ...
PolitiFact National on Monday, September 26th, 2016. Mostly False. They were  unconvinced, and said so. Iraq. Paul Wolfowitz · "The Germans, the French,  countries that opposed us in the (Iraq) war, all believed (Saddam Hussein) had  weapons of mass destruction." — PolitiFact National on Tuesday, September  13th, 2016.
The fifth president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, was internationally condemned for  his use of chemical weapons during the 1980s campaign against Iranian and  Kurdish civilians during and after the Iran–Iraq War. In the 1980s, Saddam  pursued an extensive biological weapons program and a nuclear weapons  program, ...
Mar 16, 2004 ... Moreover, while large majorities in Western European countries opposed to the  war say Saddam Hussein's ouster will improve the lot of the Iraqi people, ... think  that American and British leaders lied when they claimed, prior to the Iraq war,  that Saddam Hussein's regime had weapons of mass destruction.
The President thought it was correct. Congress thought it was correct." In a  February 2003 speech to the U.N. Security Council, Powell alleged that Iraq was  hiding weapons of mass destruction from inspectors and refusing to disarm.  However, after the U.S. had invaded Iraq and overthrown Saddam Hussein, no  weapons of ...
The Germans, the French, countries that opposed us in the (Iraq) war, all believed (Saddam Hussein) had weapons of mass destruction.