WMD or No WMD, Administration Say War Was Worthwhile

[papau]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAN5HWKURD.html

WMD or No WMD, Administration Say War Was Worthwhile

By Ken Guggenheim Associated Press Writer
Published: Mar 15, 2004

WASHINGTON (AP) - Bush administration officials continue to hold out hope that weapons of mass destruction stockpiles will be found in Iraq. But even if they're not, they say, the war to topple Saddam Hussein was still worthwhile.

The Iraqi leader, now in U.S. custody, represented "the most dangerous regime in the world's most dangerous region," national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." <snip>

The war has become a top issue in the presidential campaign. Democrats say President Bush's poor planning and failure to build a broader international coalition have left the United States mired in a conflict with an extraordinary cost in lives and tax dollars.

Bush built the case for war around intelligence that Saddam had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and an advanced nuclear weapons program. But U.S. inspectors have found no stockpiles and say the nuclear threat was overstated.

The former chief U.N. weapons inspector, Hans Blix, said that before invading Iraq the Bush administration was overly confident Saddam's regime possessed weapons of mass destruction and wasn't interested in evidence to the contrary. <snip>

Secretary of State Colin Powell: " Saddam never lost his intention to have weapons of mass destruction and he had the capability and infrastructure to build them." <snip>

[underpants]

1. Here's some free advice:STOP LYING

Got it?

[Mandate My Ass]

2. It was *very* worthwhile

for Halliburton and the Carlyle group.

[grannylib]

3. Yeah, what's the difference anyway, right?? WMDs vs WMD program-

related activities...never mind what was said at the time, forget all that...

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