June 4, 2003 -- GERALDO Rivera, who covered the Iraqi war for Fox News Channel, says it's "embarrassing" that weapons of mass destruction - the primary reason given for attacking Iraq - haven't been found. In fact, Geraldo says, they don't even exist in that country.
"The weapons of mass destruction apparently do not exist, so our main justification [for going to war] was probably not true - it was false, not intentionally false but, I think, a failure of intelligence," Rivera said yesterday on "Live with Regis & Kelly."
"It's going to be more and more embarrassing as time goes by, both to the Prime Minister of Britain, Tony Blair, and to our own secretary of state," Rivera said.
"Remember, Colin Powell made that impassioned presentation to the United Nations, 'Here's where they [WMDs] are . . . I think that will be very embarrassing."
"You believe [Saddam Hussein] had [no WMDs] at all?" host Regis Philbin asked Rivera.
"None," Rivera answered. He did say, however, that he feels the war was totally justified.
"What we did was rid the world of a hideous dictator who was in a constant, murderous rage," Rivera said to wild applause from the "Live" audience.