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Like it or not, Maj. Scott Ritter had it right all along. Most of the rest of us, from the president to his key advisers, such as Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, Wolfowitz and Tenet, to the majority of Congress and to most of the talking heads – including the pre-Iraq War NBC analyst David Kay, who reported WMDs (weapons of mass destruction) behind every Iraqi sand dune – blew it big-time when it came down to the awesome arsenal that Saddam had supposedly squirreled away. Ritter, the United Nations' chief weapons inspector in Iraq until 1998, took us all on...

„British officers knew on eve of war that Iraq had no WMDs" FRASER NELSON and JASON BEATTIE Key points • UK intelligence learned just before war that Iraq had not assembled chemical weapons • Mossad "knew 45-minute claim was an old wives’ tale" - but did not tell UK or US • US Secretary of State "does not know" if he would have recommended invasion if he had been told Iraq had no WMDs • Former civil service chief to lead investigation into whether British intelligence on Iraq was accurate • Lib Dems boycott inquiry because of tight terms of...

Serbia and the Grand American Strategy by Mirko Dakovic October 24, 2000 The election of Vojislav Kostunica as the new president of the Yugoslav federation will undoubtedly present the citizens and political elites of Yugoslavia with an opportunity to re-conceptualize and re-articulate the political relations that define the current common state between Serbia and Montenegro. Concurrently, the new president will be confronted with many difficult obstacles in his quest to solidify democratic institutions and the rule of law in the Yugoslav federation. However, let us presuppose that the political differences between Serbia and Montenegro will be reconciled and that the ...