Cheney Says Report Finding No Illicit Arms in Iraq Justifies War
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The vice president asserted that a report by the chief U.S. arms inspector in Iraq justified rather than undermined President Bush's decision to go to war.
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U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in Baghdad on Thursday for an unannounced visit, Iraqi State Television reported.
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(Pensacola, Fla.-AP) Oct. 26, 2004 - Vice President Dick Cheney says 400,000 tons of explosives would be in Saddam Hussein&#39;s hands if the US had not invaded Iraq.
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Iraq had no stockpiles of biological  and chemical weapons before last year's U.S.-led invasion and  its nuclear program had decayed, the chief U.S. weapons  inspector said on Wednesday, contrary to prewar assertions of  the Bush administration.
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President Bush said the finding that Iraq had no illicit arms at the time of the invasion in no way undermined his decision to go to war.
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President Bush and his vice president conceded Thursday in the clearest terms yet that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, even as they tried to shift the Iraq war debate to a new issue &#151; whether the invasion was justified because Saddam was abusing a U.N. oil-for-food program.
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PENSACOLA, Fla.  - Vice President Dick Cheney  accused Sen. John Kerry on Tuesday of being an "arm-chair  general" and defended the Bush administration's handling of  weapons sites in Iraq amid news that tonnes explosives  disappeared from a facility near Baghdad.
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President Bush said on Thursday he  was "right to take action" in Iraq even though a new U.S.  report found that Baghdad had no stockpiles of weapons of mass  destruction and that its nuclear program had decayed.
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Contradicting the main argument for a war that has cost more than 1,000 American lives, the top U.S. arms inspector said Wednesday he found no evidence that Iraq produced any weapons of mass destruction after 1991. He also concluded that Saddam Hussein's capabilities to develop such weapon had dimmed &#151; not grown &#151; during a dozen years of sanctions before last year's U.S. invasion.
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U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's office on Thursday denied reports he was in Iraq for a previously unannounced visit to celebrate the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday with U.S. troops.
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Drafts of a report from the top US inspector in Iraq conclude the country had no weapons stockpiles, but say there are signs Saddam Hussein had dormant programs he
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Iraq had no stockpiles of biological  and chemical weapons before last year's U.S.-led invasion and  its nuclear program had decayed since the 1991 Gulf War, a  weapons inspector appointed by the Bush administration said on  Wednesday.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair, a key ally of US President George W. Bush in last year&#39;s invasion of Iraq, has put a brave face on an inspectors&#39; report that concluded Iraq had no illegal weapons.
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While Democrats seized on the Iraq Survey Group&#39;s report that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction before the US invasion, Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday grabbed the report&#39;s findings that Saddam Hussein was &quot;actively
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Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday defended the U.S. invasion of Iraq, saying Saddam Hussein harbored al-Qaida and other terrorists and again connecting the war to the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Vice President Cheney today refused to back down from his assertion that the Democratic approach to Iraq would "validate the al Qaeda strategy," while he defended the recent nuclear deal with North Korea despite criticism from conservative allies.
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WASHINGTON - Contradicting the main argument for a war that has cost more than 1,000 American lives, the top U.S. arms inspector said Wednesday he found no evidence that Iraq produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991...