Just to help out the Foreign Secretary

Some notes you may well have forgotten to pop in your diary:

“Iraq poses a threat to the world because of its manufacture and development of weapons of mass destruction.”
Jack Straw, 24 March 2002

“What we are talking about is chemical weapons, biological weapons, viruses, bacilli and anthrax - 10,000 litres of anthrax - that he [Saddam] has.”
Jack Straw, 17 March 2003

“If Saddam Hussein does ... readmit the weapons inspectors and allow them to do their job... then the case for military action recedes to the point almost of invisibility and that is obvious.”
Jack Straw, 15 September 2002

“I have every confidence - and I have expressed that confidence - in the weapons inspectors ... As long as this regime is in place, and as long as it is refusing to co-operate, the inspection process becomes well-nigh impossible.”
Jack Straw, 17 March 2003

“Never once did I come to this House and say that I believed that we should not give the weapons inspectors more time because I did not think that they were going to get any more co-operation than they had had in the past.”
Jack Straw, 27 November 2003


And some (as ever) helpful clarification from Donald Rumsfeld:

“We know where [the WMDs] are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.”
30th March 2003