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Please be seated. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Vice President, for your remarks and your leadership. Thank you, Secretary Cohen, for the superb job you have done here at the Pentagon and on this most recent very difficult problem. Thank you, General Shelton, for being the right person at the right time. Thank you, General Ralston, and the members of the joint chiefs, General Zinni, Secretary Albright, Secretary Slater, DCIA Tenet, Mr. Bowles, Mr. Berger, Senator Robb thank you for being here and Congressman Skelton. Thank you very much, and for your years of service to America and...

MADRID, Spain (AP) - Spain, an outspoken U.S. ally on Iraq, has no immediate plans to investigate why the government believed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, a government official said Thursday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, was responding to a report Thursday in El Pais that Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar's government had drafted a three-page internal document ruling out a probe into the government's grounds for supporting the U.S.-led war. In the document, the government justifies its support for invading based on reports by United Nations' weapons inspectors, U.N. resolutions and Spain's national interest,...