The dark side of the Duelfer report

Mortimer B. Zuckerman writes in U.S. News and World Report about the parts of the Duelfer report that arn't getting quite as much publicity as the lack of WMD stockpiles.

Saddam wanted to re-create Iraq's banned weapons programs, including nuclear weapons. Saddam was determined to develop ballistic missiles and tactical chemical weapons when the U.N. sanctions were either lifted or corroded. Saddam retained the industrial equipment to help restart these programs, having increased from 1996 to 2002 his military industrial spending 40-fold and his technical military research 80-fold. Even while U.N. weapons inspectors were in Iraq, Saddam's scientists were performing deadly experiments on human guinea pigs in secret labs.

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