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October 07, 2004
DEBATES, DUELFER, & ALUMINUM TUBES
7 October 2004
by Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies
Excerpt:
Charles Duelfer's report to Congress, based on the 15 months work of the CIA-linked Iraq Survey Group, confirmed what we have been saying for years: Iraq had no stockpiles of WMDs, it had no weapons to give to al-Qaeda, and it had no viable programs to resume making weapons. All it had, according to the report, was Saddam Hussein's "desire," if military sanctions were lifted, to rebuild Iraq's capacity - itself a speculative claim but one irrelevant to Iraq's actual military capacity. Iraq posed no threat. While Duelfer's report went out of its way to include information far beyond its WMD mandate, and Duelfer himself repeated Bush's "the world is better off" phrase in his congressional testimony, there is no question that this report confirms the war was based on lies.
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