"In an interview with CNN’s John King, Cheney said Saddam has pressed ahead with developing weapons of mass destruction since U.N. weapons inspectors last visited Iraq in 1998.
[znip]
"The vice president said nuclear technicians are “still in Iraq” and that Saddam is working on what Cheney called “fissile material.”
Nope. Not true.
"Let me turn now to nuclear weapons. We have no indication that Saddam Hussein has ever abandoned his nuclear weapons program.
On the contrary, we have more than a decade of proof that he remains determined to acquire nuclear weapons."
Yes, that’s the funny thing about Godwin’s law: the allusions to the Nazis become less and less circumspect and gradually more explicit. Often there’s disagreement as to who it really applies to.
elucidator
No, he was not simply hanged for the waging of an aggressive war. If that were the charge, why wouldn’t the entire Japanese officer corps have been hanged?
No, because in order to be tried at Nuremberg, you had to lose the war. No Soviets were tried, despite committing most of the crimes the Nazis were accused of.