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March 24, 2003: Rumsfeld Says He Has Seen Intelligence Showing Iraq Has Chemical and Biological Weapons

2003-03-24

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says on CBS’s “Face the Nation”: “We have seen intelligence over many months that they have chemical and biological weapons, and that they have dispersed them and that they’re weaponized and that, in one case at least, the command and control arrangements have been established.” [Village Voice, 6/18/2003]