Bush administration retreats on Iraq weapons claim

I am Jack's complete and total lack of surprise:

The White House retreated Monday from its once-confident
claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and Democrats swiftly
sought to turn the about-face into an election-year issue against
President Bush. The administration's switch came after retired chief
U.S. weapons inspector David Kay said he had concluded, after nine
months of searching, that Saddam Hussein did not have stockpiles of
forbidden weapons. Asked about Kay's remarks, White House spokesman
Scott McClellan refused to repeat oft-stated assertions that prohibited
weapons eventually would be found

Posted by flow Frazao on January 27, 2004 at 02:59 PM | Permalink