So where are the WMD's?
September 10, 2004 3:47 PM
Tomorrow will be the 500th day since George Bush announced the war in Iraq over. The Guardian is today reporting that the Iraq Survey Group will conclude there were no weapons of mass destruction in the country at the time of the US-UK invasion. Since Iraq was invaded over 1,000 British and Americans and 20,000 have been killed, the cost of the war has hit £100billion.
Although it has been obvious since last year that the Iraq Survey Group was unlikely to unearth anything, its final verdict is an embarrassment to President Bush and Mr Blair. Before the invasion, both governments claimed Saddam had a covert programme to produce chemical and biological weapons, to manufacture ballistic missiles and had renewed its search for a nuclear bomb. Mr Blair did, however, soften his stance in July, telling MPs: "I have to accept that we have not found them and that we may not find them."
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