Saddam Hussein Sowed Confusion About Iraq's Arsenal as a Tactic of War
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Saddam Hussein hid behind ambiguities and evasions about whether Iraq possessed illicit weapons, partly as a deterrent to Iran.
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said a US report on Iraqi arms programs shows Saddam Hussein was working to acquire banned weapons in breach of United Nations resolutions, justifying the 2003 war to depose him.
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BAGHDAD - The media was scrambling to confirm yesterday whether the most wanted Saddam Hussein aide still on the run had been captured, after a day of confusion, with top officials making contradictory statements.
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WASHINGTON Oct. 6, 2004 - Undercutting the Bush&#39;s administration&#39;s rationale for invading Iraq, the final report of the chief US arms inspector concludes that Saddam Hussein did not vigorously pursue a program
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In the stormy trial of Saddam Hussein, the defense strategy is shaping up as a two-pronged argument that the regime was justified in its crackdown on Shiites and that the prosecution is blaming the wrong people for carrying it out.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said that Saddam Hussein intended to develop weapons of mass destruction if he got the chance, despite a US report which says the former Iraqi ruler had no such weapons.
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Iraq was scrambling to confirm on Monday whether the most wanted Saddam Hussein aide still on the run had been captured, after a day of government confusion with top officials making contradictory statements.
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In Washington, in the tense months before war in Iraq, Charles Duelfer was confident. "Of course he is developing his weapons of mass destruction," the American arms expert wrote of Saddam Hussein.
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Iraqi officials struggled today to clear up confusion over whether the most wanted member of Saddam Husseinâs ousted dictatorship had been captured in a shoot-out north of Baghdad.
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Bush shifts his arguments from warnings that Hussein actually possessed weapons of mass destruction to talking almost exclusively about the dictator's intent.
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Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein kept up the illusion that he had weapons of mass destruction before 2003 because he did not think the United States would invade, an FBI agent who questioned him said.
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Some in Iraq question how and why war is being waged.
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Statements by the Bush administration before and after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 on Saddam Hussein's weapons programs:
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In a sign of confusion over who runs post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, the United States on Wednesday contradicted an announcement by an Iraqi government ministry
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Once it became clear some months ago that Saddam Hussein had been telling the truth about not having weapons of mass destruction or connections to al-Qaida, it should have been an embarrassment
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President BushÂs national security adviser expressed serious doubts about whether IraqÂs prime minister can control sectarian violence.
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A key US report saying Saddam Hussein had no WMD intensifies debate on the justification for war with Iraq.