U.S. Report Undercuts Bush War Rationale
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WASHINGTON - Undercutting the Bush's administration's rationale for invading Iraq, the final report of the chief U.S. arms inspector concludes that Saddam Hussein did not vigorously pursue a program to develop weapons of mass destruction after international inspectors left Baghdad in 1998, according to lawmakers and others briefed on the report...
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The White House staunchly defended its Iraq policy Tuesday as new questions emerged about President Bush's prewar decisions and postwar planning. An impending weapons report undercut the administration's main rationale for the war, and the former head of the American occupation said the United States had too few troops in Iraq after the invasion.
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An official US report saying Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction when US-led forces invaded has intensified the debate about justification for the war.
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A US intelligence report on Iraq describes a perilous situation in which the US has little control if the violence continues.
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President Bush's new status report on the war strongly implies that the administration believes its military strategy will take many more months to meet its goals
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Comparing the Administration's war rationale to the facts on the ground
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WASHINGTON -- The final report of the chief American arms inspector for Iraq was expected to undercut a principal US administration rationale for removing Saddam Hussein: that his Iraqi government had weapons of mass destruction.
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In a world in which politicians reasoned rather than bellowed, the Duelfer report about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction would cause both George W. Bush and John Kerry to reconsider basic premises of their foreign policy.
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Already scrambling to make up ground lost after last week's debate, US President George W. Bush's campaign was forced further on the defensive by a report that the White House knew before invading Iraq that key intelligence on the country's alleged nuclear weapons program was questionable.
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WASHINGTON - Coming a month before the presidential elections, the final US report on Iraq&#39;s weapons capability quickly became a political tool as both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry&#39;s campaign used it to buttress their positions.
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An Iraqi report about missing munitions intensifies the debate over the Bush Administration's handling of the war
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U.S. News & World Report - President Bush and his strategists say they are concerned that partisan differences are pulling Americans apart over Iraq, partly because of the harsh political campaigns that ended in the Democratic takeover of Congress in the November 7 election.
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The Bush administration said on   Tuesday it may declassify an intelligence report in order to   respond to Democrats who say the document shows the Iraq war   has been a distraction from the war on terrorism.
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Steady condemnation from conservatives for the Iraq Study Group report may be providing some cover to the Bush administration as it completes its own review of strategy in Iraq, apparently with little enthusiasm for the panel's prescription of U.S. troop withdrawal and dialogue with Syria and Iran.
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The major US report on Saddam Hussein&#39;s pre-war weapons capacity has concluded Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction at the time of the US invasion, contradicting the Bush administration&#39;s main argument for war.
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President Bush tried in advance today to deflate a report that will undercut some of his rationale for the Iraq war.
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U.S. intelligence officials prepared a  report for President Bush in late July presenting a gloomy  outlook for Iraq, saying that at worst the country might  descend into civil war, The New York Times said on Thursday.