Bush, Cheney Concede Saddam Had No WMDs
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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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WASHINGTON: Iraq had no active chemical, biological or nuclear programs at the time of the US-led invasion in 2003 having given up its weapons of mass destruction in 1991, the chief US weapons inspector concluded in a report released on Wednesday.
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U.N. inspectors said they had no  evidence that Iraq had developed drones capable of delivering  chemical or biological weapons, as the Bush administration  contended in making its case for war, according a report  obtained Tuesday.
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Accusing John Kerry of playing an "armchair general," Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday rejected the Democrat's criticism of the loss of hundreds of tons of explosives in Iraq, saying toppling Saddam Hussein took thousands of times that amount of potentially dangerous material out of the former dictator's hands.
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WASHINGTON - Drafts of a report from the top US inspector in Iraq conclude there were no weapons stockpiles, but say there were signs that fallen Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had dormant programs he hoped to revive at a later time, according to people
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The Bush administration yesterday launched a campaign to blunt the effect of a report that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction by arguing that the findings still justify the decision to invade Iraq.
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The group hunting for Saddam&#39;s arsenal said it found no evidence the dictator had chemical, biological of nuclear weapons when US-led forces invaded Iraq last year.
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(CBS/AP) Democratic Sen. John Kerry said Thursday that a new report finding Iraq had no stockpiles of banned weapons &quot;provided definitive evidence as to why George Bush should not be re-elected president of the United States.
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The Government is facing up to confirmation Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction. The group hunting for Saddam&#39;s arsenal said it had found no evidence he had chemical, biological or nuclear weapons at the time of the US-led invasion.
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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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WASHINGTON -- Iraq did not maintain an active program to develop weapons of mass destruction after the 1991 Persian Gulf War and had no chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons when the United States invaded last year, the chief US weapons inspector in Iraq concluded yesterday.
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TONY EASTLEY: After about seventeen months of searching the Bush administration&#39;s chief weapons inspector has concluded there were no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq at the time of the invasion.
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US President George W. Bush defended his call to invade Iraq ahead of a report expected to say that Saddam Hussein did not have the weapons used by the Bush administration to justify the war.
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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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Vice President Dick Cheney asserted on Thursday that a finding by the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq that Saddam Hussein's government produced no weapons of mass destruction after 1991 justifies rather than undermines President Bush's decision to go to war.
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President Bush said today that he was right to order the invasion of Iraq last year despite a new report by his chief U.S. weapons inspector that shows the country did not possess the weapons of mass destruction that were the original rationale for the war.
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Nobody will have been surprised by the conclusion of the Iraq Survey Group that Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction.