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...beginning to look a little too eager for war. Just a day after British Prime Minister Tony Blair released a new dossier of infractions by Saddam Hussein--a dossier that made no mention of the Iraqi leader's links to al-Qaeda--both National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were cranking up new accusations of links between Saddam and the al-Qaeda terrorist network of Osama bin Laden. That night, as the Daschle explosion ruled the evening news, Rice appeared on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and said "high-ranking detainees" had told the U.S. that...
...beginning to look a little too eager for war. Just a day after British Prime Minister Tony Blair released a new dossier of infractions by Saddam Hussein - a dossier that made no mention of the Iraqi leader's links to al-Qaeda - both National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were cranking up new accusations of links between Saddam and the al-Qaeda terrorist network of Osama bin Laden. That night, as the Daschle explosion ruled the evening news, Rice appeared on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and said "high-ranking detainees" had told the U.S. that...
Last week a U.S. official called it "underwhelming," and several British officials close to Tony Blair agreed that it contained no smoking gun, no proof "that Saddam has an atom bomb in Basra." But today Blair's government released its long-promised dossier on Saddam's program to build weapons of mass destruction, hours before parliament assembled for an emergency debate on Iraq. Among its key findings...
...dossier notes that all this work violates UN resolutions as well as other treaties, and serves Saddam's proven passion, going back more than 20 years, to acquire a big collection of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs...
...page document is the product of close collaboration between British and U.S. intelligence, and of tussles between politicians and spies about how much secret data to release. It's true that the dossier contains no "killer fact" capable of converting doubters to the cause of imminent war. But that isn't Blair's purpose. He is trying to build a cumulative case that Saddam is both intent on acquiring more WMDs, and is therefore too dangerous to be left unchecked by the international community, given his long record of brutality towards his own people, aggression towards his neighbors and contempt...