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How Prewar Intelligence Measured Up

HOW PREWAR INTELLIGENCE MEASURED UP

Weapons report fails to confirm most key administration claims

The Associated Press

JOHN J. LUMPKIN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON -- On the eve of war, President Bush told the nation that intelligence left no doubt Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. It was among the final assertions of an 18-month campaign by his administration to cast Iraqi President Saddam Hussein as a serious and imminent threat.
Six months later, there are doubts.

Last week, the CIA's chief weapons hunter, David Kay, told Congress: "We have not yet found stocks of weapons..."

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