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...come up with." Members of Bush's senior national security team, says this official, "are as surprised as anyone--they really thought that it would be a lot easier to find, identify and show the world everything that was there." Iraqi sources involved in Saddam's WMD programs, meanwhile, insist that there was nothing to find; all weapons, they say, were destroyed long ago (see following story). For Bush, the failure to find WMD has been a source of political embarrassment. For his principal ally, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, it has been a disaster, as allegations that his government...
...Critics insist that Bush and Blair stretched the available intelligence on WMD until it fit their predetermined decision to go to war. But that can't be the whole story. There is no doubt many British and U.S. officials really believed that Saddam had at least chemical and biological weapons--the British government, certainly, would never have taken the risk of waging an unpopular war if it had genuinely thought there was nothing deadly to be found in Iraq. And in their conviction that Saddam was hiding something, Bush and Blair were not alone. Top members of Bill Clinton...
Administration officials insist that U.S. forces were welcomed into Iraq as liberators--which, for a week or so, they were--and that there is still gratitude for their presence now--which is more debatable. In a society that has been as repressed as Iraq's for 50 years, true popular sentiment is hard to judge. Iraq is still getting used to freedom and its boundless possibilities. After the war was over, many stores in Baghdad did not take up their shutters, though it was safe for them to do so. "We're waiting for someone to tell us to open...
...that he could prove, at least. Just before the war, he recalls, the chiefs at the MIC had told people like him involved in the weapons program to hand over some of their documents and burn the rest. "They didn't realize at that time the Americans would insist on every single document," he says. "They thought the [U.S.] attacks would come and that would be it." When in the years after the war U.N. inspectors kept demanding a paper trail, the superiors got nervous. They "started asking us for the documents they had told us to destroy. They were...
...period is forcing changes. Prepared remarks are shorter, and even brief speeches are increasingly finished by an aide. The Pope did appear to bounce back a bit after his return from Slovakia, meeting with diplomatic delegations and reading most of the text during his Wednesday general audience. Senior aides insist that proposed trips to France, Poland and Mexico next year haven't been ruled out. But the day may be near when the Pope is simply a silent presence. "We are rewriting the entire Roman rite to accommodate his health situation," says the Rome priest. "The question is where...