MODS: looked for this one and didn't see it... sorry if it's a dupe.
Published on Sunday, February 1, 2004 by the Observer/UK
US Officials Knew in May Iraq Possessed No WMD
by Peter Beaumont, Gaby Hinsliff and Paul Harris
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.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0201-02.htm No need to have an inquiry into the intelligence. Let's have an inquiry into the administrations. :grr:
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