Sam, go read the god damned report yourself.
>From the Duelfer Commission Report, which you can find on the CIA site:
"Iraq would have faced great difficulty in re-establishing an
effective BW agent production capability. Nevertheless, after 1996
Iraq still had a significant dual-use capabilitysome declaredreadily
useful for BW if the Regime chose to use it to pursue a BW program.
Moreover, Iraq still possessed its most important BW asset, the
scientific know-how of its BW cadre.
Any attempt to create a new BW program after 1996 would have
encountered a range of major hurdles. The years following Desert Storm
wrought a steady degradation of Iraqs industrial base: new equipment
and spare parts for existing machinery became difficult and expensive
to obtain, standards of maintenance declined, staff could not receive
training abroad, and foreign technical assistance was almost
impossible to get. Additionally, Iraqs infrastructure and public
utilities were crumbling. New large projects, particularly if they
required special foreign equipment and expertise, would attract
international attention. UN monitoring of dual-use facilities up to
the end of 1998, made their use for clandestine purpose complicated
and risk laden.
Depending on its scale, Iraq could have re-established an elementary
BW program within a few weeks to a few months of a decision to do so,
but ISG discovered no indications that the Regime was pursuing such a
course.
In spite of the difficulties noted above, a BW capability is
technically the easiest WMD to attain. Although equipment and
facilities were destroyed under UN supervision in 1996, Iraq retained
technical BW know-how through the scientists that were involved in the
former program. ISG has also identified civilian facilities and
equipment in Iraq that have dual-use application that could be used
for the production of agent. "
Here's the report if you want to look yourself:
https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/iraq_wmd_2004/chap6.html
Iraq had no Biological weapons specific infrastructure. Their dual use
infrastructure is the same that any country would have. Yes, it is
possible that they could, at some point, have started up a research
program again. So could virtually any country. The study group found
no evidence that Iraq had taken any steps to restart their research or
development program.
I don't have to debunk the Duelfer report because the report itself
refutes the positions taken in the NRO article. NRO are a bunch of
Bush apologist hacks. I'm sorry it bothers your world view, Sam, but
for fucks sake, drop it all ready. The facts belie every single claim
that Iraq was engaged in any sort of weapons of mass destruction
program in the years leading up to our attack, no matter who much you
want to believe the contrary. Saddam was an evil dude, I believe that.
But our government lied about what he was doing. End of story.
J
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