Bush ignored doubts on Iraq arms: Senate report

Randall Mikkelsen
Reuters
Thursday, June 5, 2008

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush and top administration policy makers ignored doubts among intelligence agencies over Saddam Hussein's arms programs as they made their case for war with Iraq, a Senate committee reported on Thursday.

The Senate Intelligence committee said in a study that major administration statements on Iraq before the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion in most cases were substantiated by available U.S. intelligence, but that they failed to reflect internal debate over those findings.

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It also said that Bush administration statements that Iraq had a partnership with al Qaeda and provided it with weapons training were unsupported by intelligence.

The Senate study supported previous reports and findings that the administration's main case for war -- that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction -- was inaccurate and deeply flawed.

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