The Lesson of Libya's WMD Disarmament | John Kiriakou

Steve Kappas, who was the deputy director of the CIA, made a secret at the time, not secret anymore, trip to Libya in the immediate aftermath of the start of the Iraq war.

And he said, look, Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction.

He's going to die.

We know that you have weapons of mass destruction.

So you can either give them all to us and we all live happily ever after, or you can die.

And so for only the second time in the history of the planet, with South Africa being the first, Libya voluntarily gave up its weapons of mass destruction program.

And then we overthrew him anyway.

You know, Hillary Clinton famously said, we came, we saw, he died.

What's that?

Is our word worth nothing?