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To: LindyBill who wrote (34351)	3/14/2004 9:53:47 AM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 793860

The Asia Times has an article responding to assertions Bush made in the Russert interview last month. It had this to say about the international view that seems to disagree with the belief there was no doubt Saddam had WMD. Bush's claim that, in the months leading up to the invasion, "the international community thought he had weapons", is patently false. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had determined back in 1998, after years of inspections, that Iraq no longer had a nuclear program, and after four months of rigorous inspections just prior to the invasion, the agency gave no indication that anything had changed. UNMOVIC - though frustrated at Iraq's failure to account fully for all the proscribed materials - similarly determined that there was no evidence of Iraqi chemical or biological weapons. Rolf Ekeus, former head of UNMOVIC's predecessor agency, the UN Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM), declared that Iraq was "fundamentally disarmed" as early as 1996. At the United Nations and other forums, representatives of many of the world's governments questioned US and British accusations that Iraq still had WMD. atimes.com