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Friday, Dec. 2, 2005 1:24 p.m. EST Sen. Joe Lieberman: Saddam Had WMD Programs
Following up on his Wall Street Journal article Tuesday defending the Iraq war, Sen. Joseph Lieberman is reminding Bush administration critics that it's wrong to claim that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction when the U.S. attacked in 2003.
"The so-called Duelfer Report, which a lot of people read to say there were no weapons of mass destruction - concluded that Saddam continued to have very low level of chemical and biological programs," Lieberman told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity on Wednesday.
"[Saddam] was trying to break out of the U.N. sanctions by going back into rapid redevelopment of chemical and biological and probably nuclear [weapons]," Lieberman said, calling the Iraqi dictator "a ticking time bomb."
"I have no regrets" that the U.S. toppled Saddam, the former vice presidential candidate explained. "I think we can finish are job there, and as part of it - really transform the Arab-Islamic world."
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Lieberman said that his fellow Democrats haven't taken kindly to his decision to buck his party on Iraq.
"There's been some grumbling," he told Hannity. "In Connecticut there's a 'Dump Joe' web site that has cropped up."
But Lieberman added, "I've been here long enough where, at this stage in my career, I'm going to do what I think is right."
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El senador Joe Lieberman (D-CT) dijo que algunos críticos están equivocados al afirmar que Saddam Husein no tenía armas de destrucción masiva cuando los Estados Unidos invadieron Iraq en 2003.

Según el congresista, en entrevista para la Radio ABC, el informe Duelfer, que mucha gente utiliza para asegurar que no había armas de destrucción masiva en Iraq, afirma que Saddam mantenía un pequeño programa de desarrollo de armas químicas y biológicas.

''"Saddam buscaba acabar con las sanciones de las Naciones Unidas para volver a la práctica de desarrollo de armas químicas, biológicas y tal vez hasta nucleares"'', dijo Lieberman.

En la opinión de Lieberman, los EUA frustraron los planes de Sadam, a los que el senador demócrata se refirió como una "bomba de tiempo".