claim: when the united states invaded iraq, saddam hussein wanted to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and "he said so himself after his capture."
author: john mccain
evidence_1: the interrogation of saddam hussein began shortly after his december 2003  capture, while the deposed president of iraq ... saddam said he feared al-qaeda  would have turned on him, and was quoted calling osama bin laden a "zealot.  .... we invaded iraq because saddam did have wmd, but was pretending he didn' t.
evidence_2: dec 18, 2016 ... the us "got it wrong" about saddam hussein and iraq, the cia analyst who ...  leader and now says that america was critically mistaken about their ... 'we never  thought about using weapons of mass destruction,' former iraqi ruler told cia ...  iraq, saying the former president heard “only what he wanted to ...
evidence_3: the fifth president of iraq, saddam hussein, was internationally condemned for  his use of ... the united states and the uk asserted that saddam hussein still  possessed ... stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction (wmd) in 2003, and that  he was ... however, in his may 2003 report to the u.n., blix said that his team had  ...
evidence_4: hussein told cbs about wmds--but cbs wasn't watching ... tricked america into  invading iraq by making us believe that he had weapons of mass ... saddam still  wouldn't admit he had no weapons of mass destruction, even ... that he have a  complete declaration of his weapons; he said he didn't have .... get all posts  ...
evidence_5: dec 25, 2014 ... president george w. bush's decision to invade iraq on march 20, 2003, ... the  main premise for the war was that saddam had weapons of mass destruction ( wmds) and ... today, the united states has less influence in baghdad than iran  does. ... he had used chemical weapons against his own people and ...