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WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has quietly concluded without any evidence of the banned weapons that President George W. Bush cited as justification for going to war, the White House said Wednesday.

Democrats said Bush owes the country an explanation of why he was so wrong.

The Iraq Survey Group, made up of some 1,200 military and intelligence specialists and support staff, spent nearly two years searching military installations, factories and laboratories whose equipment and products might be converted quickly to making weapons.

Scott McClellan, the White House press secretary, said there no longer is an active search for weapons and the administration does not hold out hopes that any weapons will be found. "There may be a couple, a few people, that are focused on that" but that it has largely concluded, he said.

"If they have any reports of (weapons of mass destruction) obviously they'll continue to follow up on those reports," McClellan said. "A lot of their mission is focused elsewhere now."

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said Bush should explain what happened.

"Now that the search is finished, President Bush needs to explain to the American people why he was so wrong, for so long, about the reasons for war."

"After a war that has consumed nearly two years and millions of dollars, and a war that has cost thousands of lives, no weapons of mass destruction have been found, nor has any evidence been uncovered that such weapons were moved to another country," Pelosi said in a written statement. "Not only was there not an imminent threat to the United States, the threat described in such alarmist tones by President Bush and the most senior members of his administration did not exist at all."

Chief U.S. weapons hunter Charles Duelfer is to deliver his final report on the search next month. "It's not going to fundamentally alter the findings of his earlier report," McClellan said, referring to preliminary findings from last September. Duelfer reported then that Saddam Hussein not only had no weapons of mass destruction and had not made any since 1991, but that he had no capability of making any either. Bush unapologetically defended his decision to invade Iraq.

"Nothing's changed in terms of his views when it comes to Iraq, what he has previously stated and what you have previously heard," McClellan said. "The president knows that by advancing freedom in a dangerous region we are making the world a safer place."

Bush has appointed a panel to investigate why the intelligence about Iraq's weapons was wrong.

McClellan said the Iraq experience would not make Bush hesitant to raise alarms when he deems it necessary.

"But we're also going to continue taking steps to make sure that that intelligence is the best possible," he said. "Our friends and allies had the same intelligence that we had when it came to Saddam Hussein," McClellan said. "And now we need to continue to move forward to find out what went wrong and to correct those flaws."

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Stephanie S.

"Nothing's changed in terms of his views when it comes to Iraq, what he has previously stated and what you have previously heard," McClellan said. "The president knows that by advancing freedom in a dangerous region we are making the world a safer place."
Wait, what was/is Bush's view again? Or which one is being focused on today?


McClellan said the Iraq experience would not make Bush hesitant to raise alarms when he deems it necessary.
Oh Joy! How about you just make sure you have all your little duckies in a row before you jump on the war bandwagon, Mr. Bush.


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Hiz Highness

Nice of the Whitehouse to tell us what we already know.

That 'mistake' sure put a lot of money in to the hands of Haliburton, Bechtel, and other global corporations. It's always good to see our tax money going to those who need it most.

-HH

Higher Logic

Ha! Waiting for the "right" to respond to this. Though "we" already knew this for quite some time. Sure did make a lot of people rich though, continuing a war that was quit unnecessary...

So everytime I or someone here made the claim "a war based on false pretenses" we were right...image that

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Stephanie S.

DAMNIT HH AND HL, the White House thought they had it right! And anyway, NOW there will be Democracy in Iraq. Didn't you hear George Bush and Colin Powell pushing that angle? Colin Powell talked about it right after he presented the images of the "bomb making facilities". I swear he said, "And pluuus, there will be Democracy in Iraq." What do you care anyway if those sonsbittches at Halliburton line their pockets? You're just paranoid, Halliburton is the only company with the capabilities to handle these types of things, duh! They can't help it that they are so all gloriously powerful that nobody else could have done the things they did. Ya'll could use some learnin', Texas style.

Dang, you guys are so whiny.

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jewishjake420

Hey, how could all of those U.N. inspectors that are specially trained and use advance equipment to find weapons were right about Sadaam not having any? It just doesn't make any sense.

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MickityMike

Eh, is this report a surprise to anyone anymore? Although I do have questions about the "no capability" aspect to the headline. I guess we'll all just have to wait another month for the actual report - then you guys can really tear into me!

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Higher Logic

Heh, never was a surpise to me, you perhaps


30% truth is better than 70% right...right?!

MickityMike

Eh, not really, dude. Has this not been obvious for an extremely long time now?

HappyMan

We should remember that Iraq did have WMD

And that the UN never stated prior to the war that Iraq was without.

The issue beofrer the war was not a question of Iraq having WMD, that was a given. Those who opposed the war argued that possession to WMD did not matter. There thought that Iraq was without was NOT an aspect of the public debate on this issue.
This is not a matter that the White House went to war against world opinion regarding WMD; the world agreed that Iraq had them.
Many of you here never denied that Iraq had such weapon. It is fairly dishonest now to go back and distort prewar arguments to fit current anti-war sentiments.

Also the case for the war was that Iraq was not complying with UN resolutions regarding discloser of WMD destruction. The UN published several reports citing that Iraq had not disclosed in detail what happened to its stockpile and development programs. There are still lapses in the explanation of what happened to those stockpiles and programs. WMD have not been found, but serious questions do remain.

The current round of “I told you sos” is premature.

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