Was Iraq a threat to us? Vice President Cheney said "What we must not do is in the face of mortal threat is to give in to wishful thinking or willful blindness, we will not simply look away, hope for the best and leave the matter for some future administration to resolve."
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Doesn't this mean that Iraq was ready and able to launch an attack of great devistation on us? If this is true why then, did Iraq only use conventional weapons and why then did they only use missles that where legal?