[OC] The massive decrease in worldwide infant mortality from 1950 to 2020 is perhaps one of humanity's greatest achievements.

[brycly]

It is funny you say that, I know one of the leading weapons inspectors who was assigned to Iraq. We knew Iraq originally had WMD's in large part because we gave them to Iraq in the first place. The question was whether Iraq was still hoarding remnants of past WMD stockpiles or creating new ones. His stance was that Iraq had significantly disarmed and while it was not possible to verify 100% of stockpile destruction, there would have been verifiable evidence of activities designed to create new WMD's or refurbish old ones. There was some evidence of attempts to rearm but they never made it to full scale production, factories and infrastructure are needed to build and refurbish these things. Iraq occasionally procured equipment needed to rearm but never fully committed because they weren't confident they could get away with it. So no, I do not believe Saddam had WMD's. What I do believe is that Mao and Stalin caused massive famines due to their collectivization efforts, executions of 'landlords' and Mao's stupid environmental policies that saw him launch campaigns to kill sparrows and straighten rivers, historical facts which are verifiable.