Reply #6: Of course he knew it. That's why he had to order Hans Blix and the

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U.N. investigators to leave Iraq so he could start bombing. They were very close to revealing to the world that there were no WMD's. Maybe Bush thought they might find some when they first started their search, when it became apparent that they were not locating anything, the rush to war began in earnest. Many people tend to forget that they were being allowed access to suspect sites and were actually destroying some prohibited weapons they had found when they were forced to leave Iraq.

Check out this link dated less than 1 month before the U.S. invasion of Iraq:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,426244,00.html