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  • US calls off search for weapons of mass destruction ( barf alert, this is a troop reduction)

    01/08/2004 6:38:49 PM PST · by gobucks · 34 replies · 224+ views
    The Irish Times ^ | Jan 9, 2004
    The Bush administration has quietly withdrawn a 400-member military team it sent to Baghdad to scour Iraq for evidence of unconventional weapons, write Conor O'Clery in New York & Deaglán de Bréadún in Dublin. The move indicates that the US does not now expect to find illegal weapons, the main reason given by President Bush for the war last year that toppled Saddam Hussein. At the same time, a prestigious Washington-based research foundation, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has published a scathing report on President Bush's case for war. The US weapons team, whose withdrawal was reported yesterday by...