Thread: WMD threat deliberately misrepresented
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Old 08-01-2004, 10:52   #1
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Thumbs down WMD threat deliberately misrepresented
The The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said that:
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Bush administration officials "systematically" misrepresented the danger of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs, which were not an immediate threat to the United States and the Middle East,
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=4091219

Granted this is just a low level think tank but it may be a preview of things to come in the Hutton report and any resulting enquiries.

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U.N. weapons inspectors had discovered that nerve agents in Iraq's chemical weapons program had lost most of their lethal capability as early as 1991
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