On the same day that the anti-war Carnegie Endowment for International Peace released a report stating, under no uncertain terms, that the Bush Adminsitration “systematically exaggerated” Iraq’s WMD capability, the U.S. Joint Captured Materiel Exploitation Group leave Iraq.
So after nine months, no WMD are found and the Bush Administration withdraws 400 of the 1400 staff on their weapons inspection staff. Hoping tenacity and reptition can overcome reality, the U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell provides the most tepid defense of the Administration’s policy to date: “I am confident of what I presented last year, the intelligence community is confident of the material they gave me,” Mr Powell told reporters.
a technology job is no excuse 