Question

Why was it believed Iraq and Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction?

A. He had been selling them on the black market.
B. Iraq possessed a number of chemical plants.
C. He had used them during the war with Iran.
D. Iraq had captured a number of them from Iran.

Answer 1

B. Iraq possessed a number of chemical plants.

Step-by-step explanation:

In 1980 Saddam Hussein was internationally known for the use of chemical weapons against Kurdish civilians during and after the war with Iran. Also, during the 1980s Hussein carried out an extensive program of biological weapons.

The UN Special Commission tasked with inspecting the Iraqi regime located and destroyed large quantities of weapons of mass destruction in the early 1990s, with varying degrees of cooperation and Iraqi obstruction. Washington withdrew the inspectors in 1998, resulting in Operation Desert Fox, whose official objective was to "downgrade" and not eliminate Iraq's potential to manufacture and use weapons of mass destruction. Control over the war potential, carried out by the United States, to remain the country with the greatest number and potential of weapons of mass destruction.

The United States and the United Kingdom asserted that Saddam Hussein still had large hidden reserves of weapons of mass destruction in 2003 and that he was trying to get and produce more clandestinely. Inspections by the United Nations had begun again in November 2002 and ran until March 2003, but no evidence of real weapons of mass destruction was presented when the United States and the "Coalition of the will" invaded Iraq and They overthrew Saddam Hussein in March 2003.

Answer 2

Several Governments suspected and speculated that there was a big chance of Hussein possessing weapons of mass destruction because He had used them in the Iran war.

Step-by-step explanation:

First of all the U.S. government supporter Hussein to fight against Iran by providing Iraq technology, resources, training and money to secure the zone. In second place, Hussein used weapons of mass destruction during that war. In third place when the war ended Iraq still had a lot of resources to keep producing them. The U.S. knew this as a fact because there was a contract record and the inventory lead them to know that Iraq had enough resources left to produce weapons of mass destruction. Then, a multicountry group researched the country and there were leads to believed Hussein had bought more resources to produce them.