I Really Hate Fox News.

I was just watching a Fox news interview about the discovery of shells by Polish soldiers that allegedly contained chemical agents, but after testing, in fact, did not. What irked me so much is that this idea that a discovery like this is proof the Saddam had WMD. It was also mentioned that his gassing of the Kurds was proof the he had WMD. To a less than savvy viewer, this might be interpreted as proof that directly prior to the invasion, Saddam did in fact possess stockpiles of WMD. That is, the administrations claims during the build up to war were actually true. However, his gassing of the Kurds took place more than a decade ago and the warheads found (which, again, tested negative) were also over a decade old. All these statements prove is that Saddam had WMD at sometime. To the best of my knowledge, this statement is not in dispute (Let's cut to the chase. We know Saddam had WMD because we have the receipt: "The cozy relationship was an effort to build a regional bulwark against America's enemies in Iran.The newspaper says a review of a large tranche of government documents reveals that the administrations of President Reagan and the first President Bush both authorized providing Iraq with intelligence and logistical support, and okayed the sale of dual use items — those with military and civilian applications — that included chemicals and germs, even anthrax and bubonic plague"). What is disputed is whether or not he still possessed stockpiles of WMD, an active WMD program and designs on a nuclear program immediately prior to the invasion.
In essence, what FNC is trying to do hear is confuse there views, and thereby shape public opinion, by equivocating between the notions of 'had WMD' and 'has WMD'. This is not journalism, it's an agenda.