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...government didn't know where Saddam Hussein was when it invaded Iraq. It took nine months to find him. Now the government doesn't know where the WMD are or even if they exist at all. It didn't know where Osama bin Laden was when U.S. troops went to the Afghanistan cave complex called Tora Bora in 2001, and it doesn't know where he is today. There is no evidence of a link between Saddam and the 9/11 attacks. Americans have been misled. If U.S. self-protection mandates unilateral, preemptive strikes against any nation that Washington chooses, American...
...ironic it is that the Bush administration went to war to topple Saddam's regime, which did not have WMD, and yet remains allied with Pakistan, which not only possesses nuclear weapons but also peddled with impunity nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea. Anand Prakash Victoria, Canada...
Regarding intelligence on Iraq's WMD, Bush Administration weapons inspector David Kay told a Senate committee, "We were almost all wrong." Almost all, but not quite. On the eve of the war, chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix reported finding no evidence of WMD stockpiles in Iraq and asked that the search continue. GENE BRYANT Nashville, Tenn...
...Much For The WMD" [Feb. 9], your report on how the CIA misjudged Iraq's ability to produce weapons of mass destruction: There are two distinct issues--how the CIA gathered intelligence and how President Bush acted on it. Neither the CIA nor Bush can be squarely blamed for the intelligence failure. It was probably the result of a communication problem. The CIA views the world in shades of gray, but the President sees things as black or white. JOEL TENDON Cortaillod, Switzerland...
...bears more responsibility for overstating the significance of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program in the months leading up to the war--the CIA, which gathered the intelligence now in question, or the White House, which may have pumped up that intelligence for its own purposes? A knowledgeable source tells TIME that the Senate Intelligence Committee, looking for answers, is ready to renew a request for the summary prepared for the President of an October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE)--the consensus of intelligence agencies--on Iraq. The White House previously denied such a request, calling the document...