U.S. Report Finds No WMD in Iraq
Saturday, September 18, 2004
WASHINGTON — In Washington, in the tense months before war in Iraq, Charles Duelfer (search) was confident. "Of course he is developing his weapons of mass destruction," the American arms expert wrote of Saddam Hussein.
In Baghdad, however, Hans Blix (search) was much less convinced. The U.N. weapons inspector, on the eve of the conflict, remarked sadly on the likelihood that armies would be "waging the war at a tremendous cost, and in the end find there was very little."
In the end, as a hurricane distracted Americans, as terrorist car bombings and U.S. air strikes bloodied Iraq, the findings of a Duelfer-led investigation were quietly leaked in Washington. And after 16 months of trying, what his teams have found is less than little.
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Meanwhile: U.S. Report Finds No WMD in Iraq
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- 1032
- You were falling behind on your lie quotient. Glad you are keeping up with your job.
- Meanwhile: U.S. Report Finds No WMD in Iraq
- “We found everything else associated with Weapons of Mass destruction"
- Wow. No axe to grind in THAT objective AP news story.
- Alternate Reality Reporting
- re: 1032
- Well said, Mark (n/t)