Thos who say "no WMD were found in Iraq are either Misinformed, or Prevaricators

>My opponent asks you to disregard this HALF of the debate because he plans to win this debate "without parsing words." My hope is that the honest reader will not fall prey to this move I find this to be a humorous statement. In a personal discussion my response would be "no, don't confuse people with facts, it's the peripheral issues that substantiate any given fact. Based of course on one personal opinion on a given subject. >I will win this debate if I can prove that it could have been possible that a person was not lying intentionally, but pathologically about WMD's AND: >I don't know about the reader, but I don't take it lightly when someone calls me a liar. Surely Con is not declaring himself to be a pathological liar. I find this posture curious, and cannot wait to watch this debate develop. Onward. Now that we've established and agreed on the definition of what is and isn't a WMD (con accepts the definition: "I will accept this definition as concrete as well as authoritative. And to be clear, I believe this definition is about all his speech has provided"). WMD found in Iraq: Pre-war: Iraq Survey group leaders Charles Duelfer and David Kay according to their reports "a clandestine network of laboratories and safe houses with equipment that was suitable to continuing its prohibited chemical- and biological-weapons [BW] programs," the official said. "They found a prison laboratory where we suspect they tested biological weapons on human subjects." They found equipment for "uranium-enrichment centrifuges" whose only plausible use was as part of a clandestine nuclear-weapons program. In all these cases, "Iraqi scientists had been told before the war not to declare their activities to the U.N. inspectors," the official said. "Where were the missiles? We found them" Mr. Duelfer reported: " Iraq did, however, maintain a breakout potential, that is the capability and know-how to rebuild WMD after sanctions were lifted. * Iraq did not live up to its U.N. obligations. U.N. violations included undeclared equipment, materials and laboratories, procurement, and work on long-range missiles and drones. The inspectors were in the process of destroying illicit Al Samoud 2 missiles and related equipment but were unable to complete the task BEFORE THE START of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. During Operation Iraqi Freedom A military report that was partially declassified June 21, 2006 reports to congress that "since 2003, Coalition forces have recovered approxamatly 500 weapons munitions of degraded mustard and sarin gass." JUNE 26, 2003 The CIA has in its hands the critical parts of a key piece of Iraqi nuclear technology -- parts needed to develop a bomb program -- that were dug up in a back yard in Baghdad, CNN has learned. The parts, with accompanying plans, were unearthed by Iraqi scientist Mahdi Obeidi who had hidden them under a rose bush in his garden 12 years ago under orders from Qusay Hussein and Saddam Hussein's then son-in-law, Hussein Kamel. This is a sample of informarion concerning WMD found in Iraq before and during the operation to remove Sadaam Hussein from his dictatorship. As you can see, the evidence proves conclussivly that WMD were present, and while operations to continue to produce said WMD were suspended, the UN report specifies that it was exactly that: suspended, not abandoned. The reader will note that I refrained from kook blogs and irratic hyperbole. This was intentional since vociferous rancor becomes the issue instead of the facts.