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...press conference chock-full of furrowed brows, misquoted facts and insincere serpentine smiles, President Bush tried hard to deflect blame for everything from the Sept. 11 attacks to Iraq’s missing WMDs. This press conference, only the third of his presdency, showed Americans a chief executive trying desperately to do damage control. But unanswered questions about WMDs and shifting justifications for the Iraq war, as well as the President’s general evasiveness, undercut the moral clarity and responsibility of a man Americans once chuckled at good-naturedly. By refusing to accept the slightest blame, or answer...
Maybe he thought voters would still believe that Iraq is rife with WMDs just waiting to be found. As he said in the press conference, “See, I happen to believe that we’ll find out the truth on the weapons…They could be hidden like the 50 tons of mustard gas in a turkey farm [in Libya].” Of course, as a sheepish White House Spokesman Scott McClellan revealed later, there were actually 23.6 tons of mustard gas, and they were not buried in a turkey farm. Former top U.S. weapons...
...before baseball is ready for Harvard, Harvard will be ready for baseball. Sure, the air temperature may be about 15 degrees too cold for the warning level on an average Omaha XS CB404 nitrogen-packed scandium bat—watch out for possible WMDs, people. And sure, sunflower seeds may be out of season...
...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...
...found a couple of semitrailers ... I would deem that conclusive evidence, if you will, that he did have programs for weapons of mass destruction." Dick Cheney, U.S. Vice President, asserting in an interview that former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had been developing WMDs...