Saddam Confesses: ‘We Have Thousands of Nukes’
(2002-11-19) — Saddam Hussein, president of the Republic of Iraq, confessed at a news conference today that his nation has thousands of nuclear weapons.
The Iraqi leader laughed as he made the announcement: “How do you Americans say it? ‘Whoop, there it is!’
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said Iraq’s revelation did not constitute a violation of U.N. Resolution 1441.
Mr. Hussein said his country may not have a complete list of weapons of mass destruction by December 8, the deadline imposed by U.N. Resolution 1441.
“We have so many weapons of mass destruction, we can hardly begin to count them,” he said. “Hans Blix will be like a kid at one of those American Easter egg hunts. No hunting required, you can just scoop them from the ground by the armload.”
