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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Wraith: [QB] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3160602.stm [QUOTE] There has been mixed reaction to a US-led interim report into the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that says none have yet been found. Hans Blix - the man who headed the United Nations weapons inspection team in Iraq before the war - says CIA official David Kay's report contained "no surprises". But the vice-president of the Senate Intelligence Committee - Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat - said America's armed forces had been put at risk, based on a threat that appeared not to have existed. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] Mr Kay, who heads the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) said it was too early to reach definitive conclusions and much work remains to be done. But Mr Blix told the BBC that America still had not come up with any evidence that Iraq had posed a great enough threat to justify war. "I don't think there are any surprises. The most important point is that they confirm that they have not found any stocks of weapons of mass destruction of any kind," he said [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] But the Republican chairman of the House of Representatives intelligence committee, Porter Goss, said the decision to go to war had been made because of the bad things Saddam Hussein had been doing. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] Mr Kay it was too early to say whether WMDs "do not exist or that they existed before the war". Much evidence about Iraq's banned weapons programmes which once existed had been "irretrievably lost", he said. The ISG, however, found significant evidence of continuing Iraqi weapons research and development. Teams found clandestine laboratories and found live botulinum toxin - which could be used to make biological weapons - at an Iraqi scientist's home, the report said. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] Plans were discovered for missiles capable of flying up to 1,000 kilometres (625 miles) - well beyond the 150 km range limit (93 miles) set by the United Nations, it added. There were also alleged contacts with North Korea to obtain missile technology. Mr Kay said additional information was beginning to corroborate reports of human testing activities using chemical and biological substances. [/QUOTE]So, as usual it's ambiguous; there's enough stuff in the report to provide ammunition for both sides. It should be noted,however, that even if conclusive evidence of WMD programs is found, it would be a long way from WMD being ready in 45 minutes. Basically, removing Saddam was the right thing to do in that it removed a brutal dictator, etc. BUT that does not mean that either the US or UK govts should have lied/exaggerated Saddam's capacities. In the UK, we had the dodgy dossier; in the US the insinuations made by politicians that Iraq was somehow involved in September 11th (Since refuted by Dubya) and that Iraq could somehow strike at America were equally bad. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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