As Rationales for War Erode, Issue of Blame Looms Large
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39833-2004Jul9.html
By Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, July 10, 2004; Page A01
Yesterday's report by the Senate intelligence committee left in shreds
two of the Bush administration's main rationales for the war in Iraq:
that Iraq had illicit weapons and that it cooperated with al Qaeda.
The conclusions are not earthshaking by themselves. Although President
Bush and Vice President Cheney have not abandoned either rationale,
both were already tattered after similar doubts were voiced over many
months by U.S. weapons inspectors in Iraq, the commission probing the
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, CIA officials and others.
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