Donald Rumsfeld said he knew where the WMD in Iraq were

However, Rumsfeld did say he knew where the WMD were. From ABC’s This Week, 3/30/03:

STEPHANOPOULOS: And is it curious to you that given how much control U.S. and coalition forces now have in the country, they haven’t found any weapons of mass destruction?

SEC. RUMSFELD: …We know where they are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.

 

This YouTube video starts with the confrontation and adds the clip of the original quote afterwards:

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By: waltereg0 on 2008/05/16 AM 8:24:21. This article is misleading. It implies that Rumsfeld said he knew where WMD in Iraq were prior to the invasion. McGovern, the protestor asking the question, asks Rumsfled "why did you lie to get us into a war that was not necessary?" But the Iraq war began on 3/20/2003. Rumsfeld's remark to Stephanopoulos was made ten days after the invasion had begun, so its relevance is moot to whether Rumsfeld lied the US into a war with Iraq. Objective analysis of the Bush administration leads one to conclude that Rumsfeld and Cheney were completely convinced that either WMDs or some kind of WMD program existed. This article creates the impression that the public was actively deceived by the Bush admin in order to start a war with Hussein, which is a veryserious accusation that the quote from the ABC interview does nothing to prove. If anything it demonstrates how strong the assumption was by Rumsfeld that Hussein had to have some kind of WMDs, and that they would be found in the areas around Tikrit/Baghdad that the Republican Guard had retreated to by the end of March 2003.

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