It looks like there is something in there for both sides of the debate but the bottom line is nothing was there and that leaves the President and his team looking like morons and idiots.
One has to wonder what Saddam Hussein was doing playing chicken with the most powerful and paranoid nation on earth. If he had nothing, why not co-operate with UN weapons inspectors and demonstrate that? The report obviously concludes he wasn't co-operating with UN inspectors and was continually trying to circumvent sanctions.
However . . . . . the "gathering threat" argument is over. The phrase "persistant threat" will soon surface.
what kills me is that it's the american government's fault that weapons inspectors were kicked out of iraq in the first place:
You mean it was Bill Clinton's fault.
I believe it was under the watch of George Bush that UN weapons inspections in Iraq resumed after a long absence.
Cowperson