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December 18, 2003
Chief of U.S. Weapons Search May Quit
Chief of U.S. Weapons Search May Quit
WASHINGTON — The chief of the U.S. team searching for weapons of mass destruction may soon quit his job, officials said today, raising new questions about the future of an effort that the Bush administration hoped would corroborate its arguments for invading Iraq.
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Though the administration has turned up no weapons stockpiles, administration officials contend that they have found laboratory equipment and scientific information that suggests that the Baathist regime had a capability to develop banned weapons. Some officials have insisted that more evidence would surely be found in time.
But senior officials, in public comments, no longer argue that Saddam Hussein needed to be overthrown because of the threat that he would develop banned weapons, and use them against the United States. They now justify the invasion as needed to overthrow a dangerous tyrant, and to open the way for democracy in the Middle East.
In his initial interrogation by military officials last Sunday, Saddam Hussein denied, as other top Iraqi officials have, that his regime had banned weapons.
Posted by glyphic at December 18, 2003 01:09 PM