Bill Nelson's Rreason for Voting to Invade Iraq

Dig this Nelson quote about his reason for voting to invade Iraq - "...Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., told Kay last week that he voted for a resolution authorizing force against Iraq precisely because of the administration's UAV evidence.

"I was told not only that (Saddam had weapons of mass destruction) and that he had the means to deliver them through unmanned aerial vehicles, but that he had the capability of transporting those UAVs outside of Iraq and threatening the homeland here in America, specifically by putting them on ships off the eastern seaboard," Nelson said.

Kay responded that the UAV program was active, but the Iraqis did not have "the existing deployment capability at that point for any sort of systematic military attack..."

Snagged from a Google cache of an old February 01, 2004 WaPo/ Seattle Times piece.

Remember, these were the balsa wood and duck tape specials of the Iraqi AF.....

As the CIA ISG report generously put it -

"Iraq’s small UAV programs had demonstrated some success, including an autonomous 500-km flight, and given time most likely would have produced larger UAVs with greater payload capabilities. The evidence uncovered by ISG suggests that the UAV programs active at the onset of OIF were intended for reconnaissance or electronic warfare." - from the CIA Inspector General's Report "Iraq WMD 2004"