It's difficult to argue with five separate nonbiased sources, as well as over 150,000 military firsthand witnesses. But some of the public still persist in believing that Iraqi WMDs didn't exist.

First, from The Terrorist Watch(1) we hear from George Piro, the last confidante of Saddam Hussein for eight months leading up to his execution. Piro states that Hussein was indeed trying to acquire nuclear capability, and claimed his WMDs were not usable since 1991.

Second, Shadow Warriors(2) documents US troops on the way to Baghdad in 2003 found caches of chemical weapons precursors, biological weapons programs, and plans for a nuclear weapons program. There was a CNN camera crew along with the soldiers, but they never reported the truth.

Timmerman (Shadow Warriors) was the first Western reporter who ever interviewed Hussein's heads of weapons programs. He stated [with proof] in 2003 there were hundreds of weapons plants all over the country. The UN, France, Russia, China, and the mainstream media knew about it but they all chose to ignore the evidence. Of course, most were on the 'take' in the Oil-for-Food program (paragraph #8).

Thirdly, the most damning information came from an insider who exposed Hussein's plans to destroy Israel, hide his WMDs, and control the Arab world. In Saddam's Secrets(3) Iraqi General Georges Sada, one of Hussein's top generals and militaryussen'sH advisors, became dangerous.

As a former Iraqi fighter pilot, Sada was a Christian. He insists Hussein did have WMDs both before and after 1991. He says they were used in artillery shells, cannons, and aerial dispersion of toxins. Instead of 'OK, let's use WMDs on this one', Iraqis sometimes said 'Special mission with special weapons.' Allied Intelligence did not realize those words actually meant the field commanders were to use chemicals.

Sada knew WMDs were Hussein's obsession for over 30 years. German, French, and Russian scientists had helped the Iraqi engineers begin the process for enriching uranium for nuclear weapons. It was these three countries that voted against the Allied invasion to depose Hussein.

With 2200 companies [AP(10/28/05)] in 66 countries involved with Food-for-Oil, Hussein amassed more than $11 billion in personal wealth, while starving regular Iraqi citizens. Shiploads of goods from Russia and France labeled in shipping manifests as 'replacement parts' or 'factory equipment' was actually missile guidance systems and rocket engines. All documented.

On 6/04 Demetrius Perricos (UNMOVIC) made it clear Hussein had smuggled WMDs before, during, and after the [1^st Gulf] war. Perricos showed documents recovered in Jordan, Turkey, and the Netherlands revealing thousands of tons of biological warheads had been shipped out of Iraq by Hussein.

UNSCOM reports that there were dozens of known active WMD production facilities during the 1990s. Per Sada, Akashat and Al Qaim facilities produced refined uranium ore. Rashidiya was for centrifuge design and testing. The al-Sharqat reactor site was still under construction when coalition forces attacked in 1991.

On 6/4/02 a three-mile long irrigation dam in Syria collapsed. Syrian president Bashar al-Assad asked for help from Jordan and Iraq. It was a perfect cover story for Hussein to use commercial airliners (Boeing 747 and 727's) to carry deadly toxins out of Iraq. These airliners were used for transporting hundreds of tons of chemicals, and armaments into Syria under the cover of a mission of mercy for the irrigation dam flood.

Eventually there were 56 sorties by air, and many more by trucks and ambulances. The Los Angeles Times (12/30/03) broke the story confirming Syria's role in undermining sanctions—with names, dates, and places. Many, including a civilian pilot, witnessed the 747 going back and forth from Iraq to Syria, and confirmed all the above.

Even with proof of Hussein's WMDs, many Americans would not agree to admit it. Timmerman's repeated questions to the White House about not revealing the truth invariably got the reply 'We've lost that one [in the media]. Why go and fight a battle that we've already lost?'

But knowing this information, most Americans would realize that the war was justified, Bush possibly knew more than was once thought, and blind hatred for Bush's domestic policies could also be in error.

Hussein was developing WMDs well after 1991, intended to use them, and hid most of them in Syria before the allied invasion for Hussein. Israel always knew Hussein had WMDs, and said so. In a 7/03 interview with CNN, Bill Clinton said, ''but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted-for stocks of biological and chemical weapons.'

More details on WMDs are highlighted in published books (4)&(5). It seems as if history will remember Bush, not as one of the worst, but one of the best presidents in history for likely saving so many.

History can be cruel, and will likely be savage without mercy in a few years for those who would not justify the invasion.

(1) The Terrorist Watch; Ronald Kessler (Crown Forum/2007)

(2) Shadow Warriors; Kenneth Timmerman; Nobel peace prize nominee/ 2006; (Crown Forum/2005)

(3) Saddam's Secrets; Georges Sada (Integrity Publishers/2006)

Kevin Roeten can be reached at roetenks@charter.net or kevin@kevinroeten.us.