655 000 killed
655 000 killed
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All reports show that all of Iraq’s biological chemical weapons stockpile were destroyed after the first gulf war in 1990 – no other programme was resumed, even in the intervening 5 years after weapons inspectors left the country and the invasion of Iraq.
Saddam continued to masquerade his military might so as not to appear weak to Iran, with whom he had fought an 8 year US sponsored war.
All this was known to security experts and security services – that his military had a loud bark but no bite. Nevertheless tendentious evidence was used to falsely construe the case for war, with Saddam posing an imminent threat to global security, which did necessitate a “last resort” recourse to violence.