[CLUE-Talk] Bush to order bipartisian review of Iraq allegations of WMD

[Jeff Cann]

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In deciding to back an independent review of the intelligence regarding Iraq's 
weapons of mass destruction, President Bush is implicitly conceding what he 
cannot publicly say: that something appears to be seriously wrong with the 
allegations he used to take the nation to war in Iraq.

Bush has lately found many of his rationales for the war in Iraq being 
challenged. Just as Kay has undermined the WMD rationale, a report published 
by the Army War College challenged the notion that the war in Iraq was part 
of the overall war on terrorism, while the group Human Rights Watch has 
disputed Bush's notion that the Iraq war was a humanitarian mission. Vice 
President Cheney has implicitly acknowledged that the Iraq war has not 
spurred peace in the Middle East, saying peace is not possible while 
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat remains in power.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3980-2004Feb1.html

Some of us never believed any of the Administration's allegations, so it is so 
satisfying that as the truth comes out, we were right on.

Anyone still believe there were WMD in Iraq?

I'll save my official I TOLD YOU SO after the independent reports come out 
next year.

Jeff

P.S.  To add more to the 'Bush lied' debate.  I encourage any Bush supporters 
to try and spin this lie:

<quote>
On Wednesday, for example, Bush suggested that war came because Saddam Hussein 
did not let inspectors into Iraq, when in fact it was the United States that 
called for inspections to end. "It was his choice to make, and he did not let 
us in," Bush said.
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