] Blair said inspection teams had turned up evidence showing Saddam
] Hussein's "total, unrepentant, malignant intent" and his
] violation of United Nations resolutions -- enough to justify the
] U.S.-led invasion.
]
] "I accept (the inspectors) have not found what I and many others
] including Dr. (David) Kay confidently expected they would --
] actual weapons ready for immediate use," Blair said, referring to
] the former top U.S. inspector in Iraq.
]
] "But let others accept that what they have found are
] laboratories, technology, diagrams, documents, teams of
] scientists told to conceal their work on biological, nuclear and
] chemical weapons capability, that in sum amounts to breaches of
] the United Nations resolution," Blair said.
]
] "If all that the (Iraq Survey Group of inspectors) find is all
] that they have found, ... we would have been irresponsible in the
] highest degree not to have acted against Saddam and rid him and
] his loathsome regime from power," he said.

I would also point out that Kay himself said plenty of evidence of WMD programs were found in Iraq, *including* an active Ricin program that was only interrupted by our invasion last March. However, Kay's report continues to be misquoted all over the place. People seize on "no evidence of WMD stockpiles", and ignore everything else he said, such as the fact that he still thought the war was a good idea, and that it was still essential to keep looking, and that just because we haven't found stockpiles, does not mean that they didn't exist. It *was* confirmed by the U.N. that Iraq at one point had over 8000 liters of anthrax, and multiple tons of VX, but it's still uncertain as to just what exactly happened to those stockpiles.

Blair Defends War Decision