BUSH OFFICIAL: IRAQI “INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY” JUSTIFIED WAR

The Bush Administration is back­track­ing — hard — from their pre-​​war claims that Iraq had stock­piles of bio­log­i­cal and chem­i­cal arms.
It doesn’t mat­ter whether or not Iraq actu­ally had any of the tox­ins in their pos­ses­sion, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs John Bolton said today. What counts is that Iraq had the “intel­lec­tual capac­ity” to build these uncoven­tional weapons.
As Global Security Newswire notes, this directly con­tra­dicts state­ments made by the pres­i­dent dur­ing the build-​​up to war.
In his March 17 tele­vised address, Bush said, “Intelligence gath­ered by this and other gov­ern­ments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime con­tin­ues to pos­sess and con­ceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.” (empha­sis mine)

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