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White House 'lied about Saddam threat'
Posted: Thursday, July 10, 2003
U.S. changes reason for invading Iraq
"The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit of weapons of mass murder," Mr. Rumsfeld testified yesterday before the Senate armed services committee. "We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light, through the prism of our experience on 9/11."
All spin all the time
An entire town detained:
On Goree Island, Bush visit sparks anger
What's the exit strategy?
The war in Iraq, as one historian recently said, is like Vietnam on crack cocaine. Global protests started before the war began. Official deception was exposed within weeks. Troops have become demoralized after months, not years. And within a relatively short time, public opinion has already shifted.
The Niger connection:
What we know, what we don't know,
and what we may never be told
* The 'evidence' that Iraq sought uranium from Niger was crucial in persuading the public of the case for war * Letters suggesting Saddam Hussein was trying to buy uranium for use in a nuclear weapons programme were exposed as forgeries in March * The CIA and State Department were dismissing the Niger connection long before the war started * The White House has - belatedly - admitted it should never have used it * The British Government is still standing by it
¥ Meanwhile North Korea's WMD is still a deterrent to the US and British.
We're ready for war or talk, says North Korea
Nuclear fears grow after N Korea tests
UK 'backflips' on weapons of mass destruction
"Senior government sources are telling me that they no longer believe that physical weapons of mass destruction are actually going to be found in Iraq," said the BBC's political editor Andrew Marr. "They don't think that there were no weapons programs. They believe that interviews with Iraqi scientists, perhaps documentation will be uncovered which will reveal the extent of programs that were there in the past," Marr said.
White House 'lied about Saddam threat'
"Prostitutes Required" ... for the White House.
¥ Powell, Rice, Rumsfeild, Ari and the mainsteam media need not apply.
Bush ducks queries on flawed Iraq intelligence
BBC accuses No 10 of manipulation as it names source of dossier claim
Dark side of 'peacekeeping'
Kofi Annan is calling for UN troops to be sent to Liberia to halt the civil war. But are such operations necessarily a force for good? Julia Stuart investigates disturbing reports of rape and prostitution in Sierra Leone and former Yugoslavia.
Rumsfeld welcomes UN and NATO help
¥ The US refused the UN advice before the invasion now wants their help
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