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...Loop? U.K. After being forced to set up an inquiry into why his prewar predictions of a big Iraqi WMD arsenal were wrong, Prime Minister Tony Blair dropped jaws by saying he didn't know that his weapons dossier's most notorious claim - that Iraq could deploy some WMDs in 45 minutes - applied only to battlefield munitions. But several cabinet ministers said they knew, casting doubt on Blair's claim of ignorance. Conservative leader Michael Howard called for Blair's resignation. Stepping Down latvia Prime Minister Einars Repse announced that his center-right government was resigning. The move came...
...mass destruction may yet be found in Iraq, the Bush administration has moved to insulate the President from any political fallout from the collapse of his case for war. The White House announced Monday that a commission of inquiry will be appointed to probe the apparent failures of prewar U.S. intelligence on Iraq, and would likely report back some time next year. Rather than face mounting pressure to explain the discrepancy between Iraq's actual capability and the "grave and gathering danger" warned of by President Bush and his aides, the White House has acted preemptively to quarantine...
...occupation of Iraq had failed to reveal the massive stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons of which the Bush team had warned - nor the nuclear weapons program that Cheney insisted had been reconstituted - the Bushies insisted that given time, they would provide the evidence to back up the extravagant prewar claims of the unconventional weapons threat from Iraq. Last week, however, they appeared to quietly give up the ghost. David Kay, the CIA weapons inspector put in charge of the hunt by the Bush administration quit and told National Public Radio that Iraq had no stockpiles of banned weapons when...
...based on what U.S. intelligence believed to be true at the time - a prospect rendered rather frightening by rereading Powell's presentation, widely hailed at the time as making the most credible case for war, of which remarkably little bears up. A comprehensive analysis of the fate of various prewar claims by the British American Security Information Council (http://www.basicint.org/pubs/Research/2004WMD3.htm#01) suggests that Bush and Blair may have done better to listen more carefully to chief UN weapons inspector Dr. Hans Blix. The UN never actually claimed that Iraq still had stockpiles of banned weapons; merely that...
...normally collegial, bipartisan work of the Senate Intelligence Committee ground to a standstill last week in an unusual public spat over whether the panel should determine whether blame for poor prewar intelligence in Iraq lies with the CIA - or the White House...