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'''General'''===Articles & Commentary=== *[http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2003/ja03/ja03rothstein.html Calendar of errors], ''Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists'': "This one's for the history books, folks. While it's always possible that some Iraqi weapons of mass destruction or WMD--which posed such an immediate threat to the United States that the Bush administration was compelled to invade that country--may some day be found, so far the weapons have proved elusive. Just for the record, (and in case in a few years no one can believe what happened, or the story becomes confused with the plot of a Marx Brothers movie), here's a representative sample of reports from the U.S. and British news media since the search for Iraq's WMD began."*[[w:weapons of mass destruction|Weapons of mass destruction - Wikipedia]] '''====2002'''====

====2003====*[http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2003/ja03/ja03rothstein.html "Calendar of errors,"] ''Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists'', January 2003: "This one's for the history books, folks. While it's always possible that some Iraqi weapons of mass destruction or WMD--which posed such an immediate threat to the United States that the Bush administration was compelled to invade that country--may some day be found, so far the weapons have proved elusive. Just for the record, (and in case in a few years no one can believe what happened, or the story becomes confused with the plot of a Marx Brothers movie), here's a representative sample of reports from the U.S. and British news media since the search for Iraq's WMD began."

*Jim Lobe, [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EL20Ak03.html 20 December 2003]: "Who needs WMD when you've got Saddam?," by Jim Lobe, ] ''Asia Times'', December 20, 2003: "With former president Saddam Hussein in the bag, the administration of President George W Bush appears determined to make US voters forget Washington invaded Iraq on the pretext that its now evidently non-existent weapons of mass destruction (WMD) posed a direct threat to the United States and its allies. ... '''The effort so far has taken two forms: the suggestion by administration officials, including Bush himself, that ousting and capturing Saddam were ample justifications for going to war; and the quiet dissolution of the nearly billion-dollar effort to find WMD in Iraq.'''" '''2004''' *[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/09/politics/09POWE.html?th 9 January 2004]: "Powell Admits No Hard Proof in Linking Iraq to Al Qaeda" by Christopher Marquis, ''New York Times'': "Secretary of State [[Colin L. Powell]] conceded Thursday that despite his assertions to the [[United Nations]] last year, he had no 'smoking gun' proof of a link between the government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and terrorists of Al Qaeda. ... 'I have not seen smoking-gun, concrete evidence about the connection,' Mr. Powell said, in response to a question at a news conference. 'But I think the possibility of such connections did exist, and it was prudent to consider them at the time that we did.'"*[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48456-2004Apr3.html?referrer=email 4 April 2004]: "Brazil Shielding Uranium Facility. Nation Seeks to Keep Its Proprietary Data From U.N. Inspectors" by Peter Slavin, ''New York Times''.

====2004====*Christopher Marquis, [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/09/politics/09POWE.html?th "Powell Admits No Hard Proof in Linking Iraq to Al Qaeda,"] ''New York Times'2005', January 9, 2004: "Secretary of State [[Colin L. Powell]] conceded Thursday that despite his assertions to the [[United Nations]] last year, he had no 'smoking gun'proof of a link between the government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and terrorists of Al Qaeda. ... 'I have not seen smoking-gun, concrete evidence about the connection,' Mr. Powell said, in response to a question at a news conference. 'But I think the possibility of such connections did exist, and it was prudent to consider them at the time that we did.'"*Bill Maxwell, [http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0303-10.htm "After Pigeon Inspections, Bush Eats Crow,"] ''St. Petersburg Times'', March 3, 2004.*Peter Slavin, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48456-2004Apr3.html?referrer=email "Brazil Shielding Uranium Facility. Nation Seeks to Keep Its Proprietary Data From U.N. Inspectors,"] ''New York Times'', April 4, 2004.*[http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_1.html "UN inspectors: Saddam shipped out WMD before war and after,"] ''World Tribune'', June 11, 2004.*Ben Johnson, [http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13835 "Exporting Saddam's WMDs,"] [[FrontPageMag.com]], June 18, 2004.*Paul Kerr, [http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2004_07-08/IraqiWeaponsSites.asp "UN: Iraqi Weapons Sites Looted,"] ''Arms Control Today'', July/August 2004.*[http://www.washingtondispatch.com/spectrum/archives/000635.html "No WMD: Bush Legitimizes Invasion of Iraq,"] ''Washington Dispatch'', October 7, 2004.*Jonathan S. Landay, [http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/10042037.htm "Vast amounts of weapons-related material missing, official says,"] Knight Ridder, October 8, 2004.*[http://www.noticias.info/Archivo/2004/200412/20041204/20041204_41515.shtm "Findings of US team confirms UN analysis of Iraq's weapons programme,"] ''noticias.info'', December 3, 2004.