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Titolo: [Retro'] Official: U.S. calls off search for Iraqi WMDs (CNN)

   Tanto per ricordare che l'assenza di WMD fu certificata lo scorso 
gennaio dalla stessa CIA.
 
Bush reagi' affermando che l'Irak aveva cattivi precedenti, e che non si 
poteva rimanere con il dubbio che ci fossero WMD. 
   Oggi si scopre che la presenza di WMD fu una deliberata 
intossicazione dell'amministrazione per  permettere agli USA di 
attaccare l'Irak. E che l'elettorato fu ingannato.
Am.
Official: U.S. calls off search for Iraqi WMDs
Bush stands by decision to go to war, spokesman says
Thursday, January 13, 2005 Posted: 0221 GMT (1021 HKT) 
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. inspectors have ended their search for weapons 
of mass destruction in Iraq in recent weeks, a U.S. intelligence 
official told CNN.
The United States is taking steps to determine how it received erroneous 
intelligence that deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was developing and 
stockpiling nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, White House 
spokesman Scott McClellan said Wednesday.
"Our friends and allies had the same intelligence that we had when it 
came to Saddam Hussein," he said. "Now we need to continue to move 
forward to find out what went wrong and to correct those flaws.
"That's exactly what the independent commission the president appointed 
is going to do," McClellan said. "They're going to make recommendations, 
and the president is committed to acting on those recommendations."
At the same time, he said, President Bush stands by the decision to 
invade Iraq.
"We had a regime that had a history of using weapons of mass destruction 
and had a history of defying the international community and had a 
history of ties to terrorist organizations in Iraq," he said. "We had 
the attacks on September 11 [2001], that taught us we must confront 
threats before it's too late.
"That's what the president's committed to doing," he said. "Because this 
is about making America more secure."
The search ended almost two years after President Bush ordered the 
invasion of Iraq, saying intelligence indicated Saddam was building 
weapons of mass destruction and may have hidden weapons stockpiles.
Members of the Iraq Survey Group were continuing to examine hundreds of 
documents and would investigate any new leads, the U.S. intelligence 
official said.
Charles A. Duelfer, who headed the Iraq Survey Group's search for WMD in 
Iraq, has returned to the United States and is working on his final 
report, the official said.
Many of the military and intelligence personnel who had been assigned to 
the weapons search are now working on counterinsurgency matters, the 
official said.
Asked whether the Bush administration planned to announce the end of the 
physical WMD search, McClellan deferred to Duelfer.
"I think it's up to him to make those determinations," McClellan said.
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said though the search for 
WMD yielded no results, the United States, based on "extensive 
intelligence," believed before it invaded Iraq that Saddam was intent on 
acquiring them.
A State Department program has employed about 120 Iraqi scientists with 
expertise in WMD to undertake research in other fields of science, he 
said.
A spokesman for the British Foreign Office said that though the physical 
search is over, some work continues.
"The hunt for WMD will continue under whatever authority is in charge, 
right now the Iraqi interim government," he said.
Invasion defended
In October, Duelfer released a preliminary report finding that in March 
2003 -- the month of the invasion -- Saddam did not have any WMD 
stockpiles and had not started any program to produce them.
The Iraq Survey Group report said that Iraq's WMD program was 
essentially destroyed in 1991 and Saddam ended the country's nuclear 
program after the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
The report found that Iraq worked hard to cheat on United 
Nations-imposed sanctions and retain the capability to resume production 
of weapons of mass destruction at some time in the future. (Full story)
"[Saddam] wanted to end sanctions while preserving the capability to 
reconstitute his weapons of mass destruction when sanctions were 
lifted," a summary of the report said.
After Duelfer delivered his Iraq Survey Group's report to the Senate, 
Bush acknowledged that Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction at 
the time he ordered the invasion but said Saddam was "systematically 
gaming the system" and that the world is safer because he is no longer 
in power.
The preliminary report indicated that Saddam hoped to restart his 
weapons programs primarily for defense against Iran.
At the same time, the report said that "the former regime had no formal 
written strategy or plan for the revival of WMD after the sanctions."
The report found that Iraq's "ability to reconstitute a nuclear weapons 
program progressively decayed" after 1991 -- and a nuclear weapon would 
have been years away.
Bush reiterated in October his position that Saddam had to go.
"He was a threat we had to confront, and America and the world are safer 
for our actions," he said. Democrats, however, didn't buy the 
president's position.
Bush's opponent in the presidential race, Sen. John Kerry, said the same 
day: "Mr. President, the American people deserve more than spin about 
this war.
"They deserve facts that represent reality, not carefully polished 
arguments and points that are simply calculated to align with a 
preconceived conception."
In Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair faced similar criticism.
He told his party's annual conference in September that the "evidence 
about Saddam having actual biological and chemical weapons, as opposed 
to the capability to develop them, has turned out to be wrong."
"I can apologize for the information that turned out to be wrong," Blair 
said. "But I can't, sincerely at least, apologize for removing Saddam."
CNN's Barbara Starr and Elise Labott contributed to this report.

E che l'elettorato fu ingannato.
Certo, certo... :)
*pat pat*
*LOL*
-Stefano

> gennaio dalla stessa CIA.
Basta leggere le non cuttare 'articolo,  eh? E fidarsi di quello che 
dice Tony Blair, piuttosto che delle proprie modeste capacita' 
neuroniche...
Am.

modeste capacita' neuroniche...
...disse il *FESSO MONONEURONE*... :)
-Stefano

 Proprio leggendolo si vede che e' una puttanata di tua fantasia :)
Cioe' un articolo della CNN e' una puttanta della mia fantasia?
Fatti curare urgentemente...
Am.

Fatti curare urgentemente...
...disse il bue all'asino...
-Stefano