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The WMD Mirage: Iraq's Decade of Deception and America's False Premise for War
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The WMD Mirage: Iraq's Decade of Deception and America's False Premise for War
By
Craig R. Whitney
Features the soon-to-be-released official report from the bipartisan Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction-named by President Bush to try to prevent similar policy debacles in Iran and North Korea.
It also includes the official speeches, United Nations reports, and declassified government investigation reports that show, step by step, how the United States got the crucial question of arms in Iraq so terribly wrong.
The documents show that:
The CIA concluded in 2002 that Iraq had reconstituted its WMD programs, but in fact Saddam had dismantled them.
American policymakers consistently assumed the worst case: regardless of his denials, if there was intelligence that Saddam might be making weapons of mass destruction then he had them and was hiding them. UN inspectors, by contrast, assumed that thorough inspection and insistence on complete Iraqi documentation could determine what the truth was.
UN inspectors were frustrated by Saddam's refusal to cooperate freely and thwarted by American military impatience just as they thought themselves on the verge of success.
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