AP: No WMDs! but Americans "not misled..."

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:48:54 -0800
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Subject: AP: No WMDs! but Americans "not misled..."

Hunt For WMDs In Iraq Is Over After Coming Up Empty
Bush Used WMDs As Reason For Pre-Emptive War

POSTED: 12:55 pm EST January 12, 2005

WHITE HOUSE -- A White House spokesman said the hunt for weapons of
mass destruction in Iraq came up empty and is over.

  Scott McClellan said there's no longer an active search for chemical,
biological or nuclear arms. He said, "There may be a few people"
following up loose ends, but the job is largely done.

  President George W. Bush used the threat of Iraq's banned weapons as a
reason for pre-emptive war.

  The chief U.S. weapons hunter is to deliver his final report on the
search next month. In his early findings, Charles Duelfer reported in
September that Saddam Hussein neither had weapons of mass destruction
nor the ability to make them.

  Bush insists the invasion of Iraq was justified.

  The president has appointed a panel to investigate why the
intelligence about Iraq's weapons was wrong. Last month, he awarded a
Presidential Medal of Freedom to CIA Director George Tenet, who assured
him Iraq had the weapons.

  Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press.


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