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Weapons of Mass Destruction and the U.S. War in Iraq

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Shimbun Asahi
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Although a U.S. fact-finding mission sent to Iraq concluded in October 2004 that the country possessed no weapons of mass destruction, why did the United States continue to insist that such weapons existed?

An independent nonpartisan commission established by U.S. President George W. Bush to examine that issue reported last Thursday, after a year-long probe, that the country's intelligence agencies did a terrible job. In fact, they passed on unfounded data to the top levels of the U.S. government.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , April 2005 , e13
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