"significant information, including research and 
    development of biological weapons, applicable organisms, 
    the involvement of the Iraqi intelligence service in 
    possible biological weapons activities and deliberate 
    concealment activities." 

    [W]e know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi 
    officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the 
    war, including some components of Saddam's WMD programme. 
    Precisely what went to Syria, and what has happened to it,
    is a major issue that needs to be resolved."

    "There was evidence of a discussion of possible [Iraqi] 
    WMD collaboration initiated by a Syrian security officer, 
    and ISG received information about movement of material 
    out of Iraq, including the possibility that WMD was 
    involved. In the judgment of the working group, these 
    reports were sufficiently credible to merit further 
    investigation." - Charles Duelfer, Iraq Survey Group Chief

    SADDAM Hussein believed that the United Nations system was
    so corrupt that it would protect his dictatorship from 
    American aggression and allow him to complete quickly his 
    quest for weapons of mass destruction (WMD). 

    Detail from the full Iraq Survey Group report - compiled 
    from scores of former Iraqi officials and captured 
    intelligence documents - shows that Saddam was intending 
    to resume his WMD programme as soon as UN sanctions were 
    dropped. -- Iraq Survey Group 

    U.N. satellite imagery experts have determined that 
    material that could be used to make biological or chemical
    weapons and banned long-range missiles has been removed 
    from 109 sites in Iraq, U.N. weapons inspectors said in a 
    report obtained Thursday.

    [Iraq Survey Group Chief David] Kay stated, "I must say I
    actually think Iraq - what we learned during the inspections
    - made Iraq a more dangerous place potentially than in 
    fact we thought it was even before the war".....

    [T]hese headlines conceal the real news in the report of 
    Iraq Survey Group head Charles Duelfer. For the report 
    makes it plain that George W. Bush had good reason to go 
    to war in Iraq and end the regime of Saddam Hussein

    How long do you let... material breach, deception and
    denial go on before you risk with the kind of surprise
    that I could never fully and 100 percent predict?

    There is "no question in our minds that there was a
    relationship between Iraq and al Queda." 

    So the "Times" knew there was evidence of Iraqi/Al Qaeda
    cooperating when they did there little, "Bush lied, kids
    died" dance last week. Will they admit the truth? They
    will just do "rowbacks." - From: LindyBill

    Nobody in the White House or the Pentagon pressured the
    C.I.A. to change an intelligence analysis to conform to
    the judgment that the world would be a safer place with
    the monstrous Saddam overthrown.

    The United States stood by for years as supposed allies 
    helped its enemies obtain the world's most dangerous 
    weapons