The war in Iraq was a "war of necessity," US President George Bush said on Sunday in an interview for the NBC television channel. His appearance comes amid signs that the failure to find weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq might hurt his credibility before the upcoming elections. Saddam Hussein's alleged possession of unconventional weapons was one of the main motives for the US-led invasion March last year. "He had the capacity to make a weapon and then let that weapon fall into the hands of a shadowy terrorist network," Bush insisted in the interview.

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