| Date: | Thursday July 10, @02:32AM |
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| Author: | admin |
| Topic: | Iraq |
| from the GFP dept. | |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Wednesday the United States did not go to war with Iraq because of dramatic new evidence of banned weapons but because it saw existing information on Iraqi arms programs in a new light after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
"The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit" of weapons of mass destruction, Rumsfeld told the Senate Armed Services Committee. "We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light -- through the prism of our experience on 9-11."
more...
http://story.news.yahoo.com
*UPDATE*
Jul 10 2003
From Anthony Harwood Us Editor In New York
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admitted yesterday there had been no major
new evidence of weapons of mass destruction before the war on Iraq.
He said America had gone to war because it had seen Iraq's arms programme in a new light after the September 11 terror attacks.
It was a dramatic shift of view from President Bush's hawkish senior adviser.
more...
http://www.mirror.co.uk
*see also*
WMD Quotes from Administration on buildup to WAR
http://globalfeepress.com/wmd
U.S. changes reason for invading Iraq
By CHRISTINE BOYD -Canadian Globe and Mail - Thursday, Jul. 10, 2003
The U.S. administration has abruptly revised its explanation for invading Iraq, as Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld asserted that a changed perspective after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — not fresh evidence of banned weapons — provoked the war.
"The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit of weapons of mass murder," Mr. Rumsfeld testified yesterday before the Senate armed services committee.
"We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light, through the prism of our experience on 9/11."
It was an about-face from a man who confidently proclaimed in January: "There's no doubt in my mind but that they [the Iraqi government] currently have chemical and biological weapons." (He was seconded in March by Vice-President Dick Cheney, who said of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein: "We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.")
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