White House Retreats on Iraq WMD Claim
Posted on: Tuesday, 27 January 2004, 06:00 CST
President Bush said Tuesday he has "great confidence" in the intelligence community despite a finding that Iraq did not have the weapons of mass destruction that the White House cited as justification for waging war.
Bush said he had no misgivings about going to war against Iraq but he refrained from saying - as he once did - that weapons of mass destruction would be discovered. "There is no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein was a gathering threat to America and others. That's what we know."
"We know he was a dangerous man in a dangerous part of the world," the president said.
The issue was injected into the presidential campaign when retired chief U.S. weapons inspector David Kay said he had concluded, after nine months of searching, that deposed Saddam did not have stockpiles of forbidden weapons. Confronted with Kay's statement, administration officials declined to repeat their once-ironclad assertions that Saddam had them.
Kay, in an interview with NBC's Tom Brokaw, said, "Clearly, the intelligence that we went to war on was inaccurate, wrong."
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