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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: Rick Faurot who wrote (36373)1/26/2004 9:17:10 PM
From: Rick Faurot  Read Replies (1) of 89467
 
Bush Under Pressure Over Iraqi Elections, WMD
Mon January 26, 2004 05:21 PM ET
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By Andrew Marshall
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - President Bush was under pressure on two fronts on Monday as calls grew in Iraq for early elections while at home his pre-war assertion that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction faced mounting criticism.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was expected to announce imminently whether he will send a team to Iraq to explore the feasibility of early elections to replace an unpopular U.S. plan to choose a government through regional caucuses. U.N. security experts are already in Iraq assessing the situation.
Violence continued unabated in Iraq where guerrillas fired a rocket at the Baghdad compound where the U.S.-led administration is based, but there were no casualties.
The White House pledged to review the intelligence that was used to justify the war that toppled Saddam Hussein last April after the top U.S. weapons hunter concluded Iraq had no stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons.
In an embarrassment for Bush, former chief U.S. weapons hunter David Kay concluded Iraq did not have stockpiles of banned weapons as Bush had said in declaring that the country was a grave and gathering danger.
Democrats have accused Bush of using faulty intelligence -- if not twisting the intelligence -- on the extent of Iraq's weapons program as a pretext for war.
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