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buff2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-04 10:50 PM
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US officials knew in May Iraq possessed no WMD
More and more information is being revealed how the American people have been deceived time and time again. Now it is back to early May. How about before the war? Blair's position is getting more shaky all the time. Who's turn is next?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1136351,00.html

US officials knew in May Iraq possessed no WMD

Blair comes under pressure as Americans admit it was widely known that Saddam had no chemical arsenal

Peter Beaumont, Gaby Hinsliff and Paul Harris
Sunday February 1, 2004
The Observer

Senior American officials concluded at the beginning of last May that there were no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq, The Observer has learnt.
Intelligence sources, policy makers and weapons inspectors familiar with the details of the hunt for WMD told The Observer it was widely known that Iraq had no WMD within three weeks of Baghdad falling, despite the assertions of senior Bush administration figures and the Prime Minister, Tony Blair.

The new revelation came as White House sources indicated that President George Bush was considering establishing an investigation into the intelligence, despite rejecting an inquiry the previous day.

The disclosure that US military survey teams sent to visit suspected sites of WMD, and intelligence interviews with Iraqi scientists and officials, had concluded so quickly that no major weapons or facilities would be found is certain to produce serious new embarrassment on both sides of the Atlantic.

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dennis4868 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-04 11:13 PM
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1. Excuse me....
Bush and his thugs knew in 2002 that Iraq most likely did not have WMD!
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