Move along. Nothing to see here. (That you haven't seen and heard before.)
This clip is just Rummy saying what he's been saying about the WMD. That it's unlikely he destroyed them, etc.
So if they can't find them and Saddam didn't destroy them. It makes all that much more sense that they never existed to begin with...
This is from the November 2, 2003 program of Meet the Press. (
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Rumsfeld On The WMD (Or Lack Thereof) (Small - 3 MB)
Tim Russert:
"Could it be that the inspections in fact, did work. That the enforcement of the no-fly zone did work. And that Sadaam in fact no longer had a weapons of mass destruction capability?"
Donald Rumsfeld:
"The theory that he took his weapons, destroyed them, or moved them to some other country. That argument. Is that possible? I suppose it's possible that he could of hidden them, buried them, or moved them to another country or destroyed them. The "destroyed them" part of it's the weakest argument. Why would he do that if by not allowing inspectors to see what he was doing and making an accurate instead of a fraudalent declaration? It makes no sense because he was forgoing billions and billions and billions of dollars that he could of had, had he acquiesced and allowed the inspectors into the country in an orderly way such that they could see really what was going on. Other countries have allowed inspectors in. South Africa did. Ukraine did. But he didn't. He fought it and deceived them consistently. Why would he do that if in fact he was an innocent? Unlikely."