Exaggerated claims of Iraqi weaponry need full explanation

The News Tribune

At last we're getting somewhere on the matter of faulty intelligence and Iraqi weapons.

After months of trying to evade and minimize the issue, President Bush last week did the right thing: He acknowledged that there were problems with the prewar assessments of Iraq's unconventional weapons capability, and he created an independent commission to find out why.

Such a probe is essential. So far, no Iraqi chemical or biological weapons have been found - despite prewar claims by intelligence agencies and the Bush administration that Saddam Hussein was hiding arsenals of "weapons of mass destruction."

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