David Corn

A central justification given by President George W. Bush and British prime minister Tony Blair for invading Iraq in 2003 was to find and destroy whatever weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that Iraq may have possessed. Bush and his backers accused Iraq of developing such weapons in violation of United Nations resolutions and argued that Iraq’s WMDs posed an urgent threat to American and world security. However, no such weapons were found in the immediate weeks after the fall of Baghdad in April 2003. In the following viewpoint, published in May 2003, David Corn criticizes the lack of effort on the part of the American military to find weapons and secure nuclear facilities in Iraq. He asserts that the military’s failure to make WMD search...