George Bush' national security advicer, Condoleezza Rice, admittet earlier today that some of the intelligence that the Bush administration based the war against Iraq on, had "uncertainties". (New York Times) But she still defended the war.
She said that Saddam Hussein had contemptuously rejected many opportunities to tell the world about the weapons of mass destruction that he had or did not have.
The supposed existence of deadly chemical and biological weapons in the hands in Iraq was cited by President Bush as a paramount reason for the military campaign that toppled the Baghdad dictator.
Yesterday David A. Kay, the former chief weapons inspector in Iraq, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he favored an independent inquiry into the United States' prewar intelligence about Iraq's weapons programs.
"It turns out we were all wrong, probably, in my judgment," Dr. Kay told the senators. "And that is most disturbing."
Dr. Kay reiterated what he has been saying in interviews recently: that he thinks intelligence about Iraq's weapons programs was, at a minimum, out of date. (New York Times)
And still the White House doesn't want an independent inquiry. And that isn't strange, given that they would most likely be torn to pieces by such an inquiry. (And this is the same politicians that spent an indecent amount of money and time on the question of former president Clintons adultery...)
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