Bush Aides Defend Intelligence on Iraq

World | September 29, 2003, Monday // 00:00
Bush Aides Defend Intelligence on Iraq US Secretary of State Colin Powell interviewed by ABC spoke about the new UN resolution on Iraq's reconstruction and the upcoming progress report to Congress this week on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program. Photo by AP

The Bush administration on Sunday disputed assertions by leaders of the House intelligence committee that the United States went to war in Iraq on the basis of outdated and vague intelligence. Senior U.S. officials said that premise would have assumed a dramatic change in behavior by Saddam Hussein - the elimination of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction since the departure of U.N. inspectors in 1998. "I just don't think that was plausible," national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said on "Fox News Sunday." The White House defended President Bush's $87 billion request for rebuilding Iraq, and the Senate's top Republican appealed for maximum support from GOP colleagues when they take up the bill this week.

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