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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-18-04 04:40 PM
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Another report of NO WMD. Bottom line: Bush lied and continues to do so
Iraq had no WMD: the final verdict

Julian Borger in Washington
Saturday September 18, 2004
The Guardian

The comprehensive 15-month search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has concluded that the only chemical or biological agents that Saddam Hussein's regime was working on before last year's invasion were small quantities of poisons, most likely for use in assassinations.

A draft of the Iraq Survey Group's final report circulating in Washington found no sign of the alleged illegal stockpiles that the US and Britain presented as the justification for going to war, nor did it find any evidence of efforts to reconstitute Iraq's nuclear weapons programme.

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Charles Duelfer, the head of the ISG, has said he intends to deliver his final report by the end of the month. It is likely to become a heated issue in the election campaign.

President George Bush now admits that stockpiles have not been found in Iraq but claimed as recently as Thursday that "Saddam Hussein had the capability of making weapons, and he could have passed that capability on to the enemy".

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1307529,00.html



Our soldiers are dying for a lie. This needs to be hammered and hammered and hammered and hammered...

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