Qtec
01-26-2004, 02:01 PM
..it was true. GW and Co started a war to achieve a hidden agenda?
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U.S., Britain downplay Kay remarks
WASHINGTON (CNN) --The U.S. and UK governments have defended their decision to oust Saddam Hussein despite an assertion by the leader of a team of experts that Iraq probably never had weapons of mass destruction.
White House officials and British ministers on Monday both said the removal of the Iraqi dictator justified the war regardless of whether he ever had banned weapons.
The Bush administration said it intended to eventually review pre-war intelligence <font color="blue"> or lack of intelligence </font color> on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
But White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the Iraq Survey Group, a team of experts looking for WMD, should continue the search despite comments from its former leader, David Kay, that no stockpiles probably exists .
"We need to compare the intelligence before the war with what the Iraq Survey Group learns on the ground," said McClellan. "Their mission is ongoing and their work is ongoing."
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, in a BBC radio interview Monday, said it was "disappointing" <font color="blue"> must be the understatement of the year ! </font color> that no nuclear, biological or chemical weapons had been found, but the world was better off without Saddam. <font color="blue"> I agree </font color>
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Isnt it time to come clean?
Q
[ QUOTE ]
U.S., Britain downplay Kay remarks
WASHINGTON (CNN) --The U.S. and UK governments have defended their decision to oust Saddam Hussein despite an assertion by the leader of a team of experts that Iraq probably never had weapons of mass destruction.
White House officials and British ministers on Monday both said the removal of the Iraqi dictator justified the war regardless of whether he ever had banned weapons.
The Bush administration said it intended to eventually review pre-war intelligence <font color="blue"> or lack of intelligence </font color> on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
But White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the Iraq Survey Group, a team of experts looking for WMD, should continue the search despite comments from its former leader, David Kay, that no stockpiles probably exists .
"We need to compare the intelligence before the war with what the Iraq Survey Group learns on the ground," said McClellan. "Their mission is ongoing and their work is ongoing."
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, in a BBC radio interview Monday, said it was "disappointing" <font color="blue"> must be the understatement of the year ! </font color> that no nuclear, biological or chemical weapons had been found, but the world was better off without Saddam. <font color="blue"> I agree </font color>
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Isnt it time to come clean?
Q