"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction," Dick Cheney on Aug. 26, 2002. "We know for a fact that there are weapons there," Ari Fleischer on Jan. 9, 2003. "We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more," Colin Powellon Feb. 5, 2003. "We know where they are," about these weapons. "They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad," Donald Rumsfeld on March 30, 2003. "We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons," George W. Bush on Feb. 8, 2003. Since the war in Iraq started, 500 American soldiers and thousands of Iraqi's have died for these lies. "If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,? My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori." Wilfred Owen, prior to his death on November 4, 1918,
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