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1. Senator Robert C. Byrd, "The Truth Will Emerge," May 24, 2003.

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2. "Iraq's Possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction," Americans & the World.

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3. Robin Cook, "Britain must not be suckered a second time by the White House: The British government needs to concede that we went to war for reasons of US foreign policy and Republican Party politics," The Independent, May 30, 2003.

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4. Christopher Ruddy, "WMD Threat Legitimate," June 3, 2003.

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5. "President Bush's Speech on the Use of Force Against Iraq," New York Times, October 8, 2002.

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6. Linda D. Kozaryn, "Cheney Says Grave Threats Require Pre-emptive Action," American Forces Press Service, August 26, 2002.

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7. "Transcript: Powell Draws Picture of Iraqi Deception, Links to al-Qaida," February 5, 2003.

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8. Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., "Truth and consequences for Saddam," February 28, 2001.

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9. "President Bush's Speech on the Use of Force Against Iraq," New York Times, October 8, 2002.

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10. NBC News, "Meet the Press," March 16, 2003.

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11. "Text of President Bush's Remarks," March 6, 2003.

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12. "President Bush Addresses the Nation," March 17, 2003.

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13. Jonathan Ruggman, "Dossier: Sample text," Channel 4 News, February 5, 2003; Michael White and Brian Whitaker, "UK war dossier a sham, say experts," The Guardian, February 7, 2003.

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14. Felicity Barringer, "Uranium purchase evidence was forgery," The Age, March 10, 2003.

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15. Ray McGovern, "Cheney, Forgery and the CIA," CounterPunch, June 27, 2003; Seymour Hersh, "Who Lied to Whom?," New Yorker, March 31, 2003; Josh Marshall, "A rose is a rose is a rose," The Hill, July 1, 2003.

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16. Walter Pincus and Mike Allen, "CIA Got Uranium Reference Cut in Oct.," Washington Post, July 13, 2003, p. A-1.

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17. CBS News, "Bush Knew Iraq Info Was False," July 10, 2003; John Solomon, "Tenet says CIA erred in letting Bush make Iraq nuclear deal allegations," Boston Globe, July 11, 2003.

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18. Walter Pincus, "White House Backs Off Claim on Iraqi Buy," Washington Post, July 8, 2003, p. A-1; Edward Alden, Guy Dinmore and James Harding, "US withheld uranium intelligence from UN," Financial Times, July 9, 2003.

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19. Jody Warrick, "Experts Doubt Tubes Were to be Used in Iraqi Weapons," San Francisco Chronicle, September 19, 2002; Michael R. Gordon, "Agency Challenges Evidence Against Iraq Cited by Bush," New York Times, January 10, 2003.

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20. Jason Leopold, "Six Months Before the War Bush White House Silenced Critics of Iraq WMD Intelligence," CounterPunch, June 13, 2003.

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21. For example, in his address to the nation on October 7, 2002, Bush stated: "In 1995 ... the head of Iraq's military industries defected. It was then that the [Iraqi] regime was forced to admit that it had produced more than 30,000 liters of anthrax and other deadly biological agents." See "President Bush's Speech on the Use of Force Against Iraq," New York Times, October 8, 2002.

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22. "Star Witness on Iraq Said Weapons Were Destroyed," FAIR, February 27, 2003; Norman Solomon, "Newsweek's Iraq Report Falls on Deaf Ears," February 27, 2003, "Alternet."

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23. "That 'Liberal' Media, At It Again on Iraq...," February 28, 2003, "Left Hook! Archive."

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24. Hans Blix, "Notes for the briefing of the Security Council on the thirteenth quarterly report of UNMOVIC," June 5, 2003.

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25. Nicholas Watt, John Hooper and Richard Norton-Taylor, "Blix attacks Blair warnings over Iraqi weapons," The Guardian, June 6, 2003; "The riddle of the sands," Sydney Morning Herald, June 7, 2003.

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26. Ewen MacAskill, Richard Norton-Taylor, and Suzanne Goldenberg, "I was shocked by poor weapons intelligence — Blix," The Guardian, June 7, 2003.

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27. Paul Gilfeather, "Blix: Saddam Had No WMD," The Mirror, June 7, 2003.

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28. Nicholas D. Kristof, "Search for weapons: Why the spooks are angry," International Herald Tribune, June 7, 2003.

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29. John J. Lumpkin, "Ex-Official: Evidence Distorted for War," The Mercury News, June 7, 2003.

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30. "Bush had 'faith-based' intelligence on Iraq: arms expert," SpaceWar, July 11, 2003; Julian Borger, "White House 'Lied About Saddam Threat,'" The Guardian, July 10, 2003.

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31. Sue Pleming, "U.S. Secret Report Raises Questions Over Iraqi Weapons," Reuters, June 6, 2003; Bryan Bender, "Spy report saw no proof of Iraq," Boston Globe, June 7, 2003.

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32. John Prados, "Hoodwinked," June 10, 2003; Jim Wolf, "Intelligence Historian Says CIA 'Buckled' on Iraq," Reuters, June 6, 2003.

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33. Central Intelligence Agency, "Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, 1 January Through 30 June 2000."

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34. "The Worldwide Threat in 2003: Evolving Dangers in a Complex World, DCI's Worldwide Threat Briefing by George Tenet, Director, Central Intelligence Agency," Washington, D.C., February 11, 2003; Jason Leopold, "Containment Was Working — CIA: Seven Months Before 9/11, the Agency Said Iraq Posed No Threat to the US," CounterPunch, June 27, 2003.

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35. "Rumsfeld: No New Iraq Weapons Evidence Before War," Washington Post, July 9, 2003.

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36. "Cheney's CIA visits pressured us: analysts," Sydney Morning Herald, June 6, 2003; Julian Borger, "The spies who pushed for war," The Guardian, July 17, 2003.

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37. Seymour M. Hersh, "Selective Intelligence," New Yorker, May 6, 2003; Richard Cummings, "War, Lies and WMDs," May 22, 2003; Robert Dreyfuss, "More Missing Intelligence," The Nation, July 7, 2003 [posted June 19, 2003]; Jason Leopold, "Wolfowitz Committee Told White House to Hype Dubious Uranium Claims," Antiwar.com, July 17, 2003.

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38. "Iraq: Chemical weapons facility discovered," Yahoo, March 24, 2003; Sharon Schmickle, "Search for 'smoking gun' is intense," The Star Tribune, April 8, 2003; "Chemical find 'may be rocket fuel,'" Herald Sun, April 29, 2003; "Troops Find Vials of White Powder, Documents on Engaging in Chemical Warfare Near Baghdad," AP, April 4, 2003.

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39. Barton Bellman, "Frustrated, U.S. Arms Team to Leave Iraq: Task Force Unable To Find Any Weapons," May 11, 2003, p. A-1.

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40. Mike Allen, "Bush: 'We Found' Banned Weapons. President Cites Trailers in Iraq as Proof," Washington Post, May 31, 2003, p. A-1.

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41. Fred Kaplan, "Shadow of a doubt: Where are Iraq's weapons of mass destruction?," Slate, May 30, 2003.

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42. Judith Miller and William J. Broad, "Some Analysts of Iraq Trailers Reject Germ Use," New York Times, June 7, 2003, p. A-1.

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43. Peter Beaumont and Antony Barnett, "Blow to Blair over 'mobile labs,'" The Observer, June 8, 2003.

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44. Douglas Jehl, "Agency Disputes C.I.A. View of Trailers as Iraqi Weapons Labs," New York Times, June 26, 2003; "W. House Dismisses State Dept. Iraqi Trailer Review," Reuters, June 26, 2003.

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45. "New Intelligence Report Does Not Replace the Need for Independent International Inspections of Suspect Iraqi Biological Weapons Trailers."

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46. Ann Coulter, "We Don't Care, Liberals," June 4, 2003.

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47. MSNBC, "Report doesn't back weapons claims," June 6, 2003.

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48. "US jumped gun on weapons, says Blix," The Age, June 25, 2003.

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49. "US Senate leader says weapons of mass destruction not main cause of Iraq war," June 26, 2003.

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50. "Iraqi chemical weapons 'posed no risk,' expert says," SpaceWar, July 11, 2003.

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51. "Where Are Iraq's WMDs?: U.S. Officials Ask," March 23, 2003.

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52. "Secretary Rumsfeld's Remarks on ABC 'This Week with George Stephanopoulos,'" March 30, 2003.

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53. Justin Raimondo, "Behind the Lies," June 9, 2003.

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54. "Mystery ships tracked over suspected Iraqi arms," WorldNetDaily.com, February 19, 2003; Michael Harrison, "Three mystery ships are tracked over suspected 'weapons' cargo," The Independent, February 19, 2003.

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55. Rupert Cornwell, "Now Bush blames failure to find WMD on looters," The Independent, June 22, 2003; "Bush Says Iraqi Weapons Sites Were Looted," Reuters, June 21, 2003.

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56. Uri Dan, "Israel Fears Saddam Hid Bio Arms in Syria," April 1, 2003.

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57. Joseph D. Douglass, Jr., "Where Are Saddam's WMDs?," April 29, 2003, "Financial Sense Online."

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58. Judith Miller, "Illicit Arms Kept Till Eve of War, an Iraqi Scientist Is Said to Assert," New York Times, April 21, 2003, p. A-1. Also at http://www.iraqfoundation.org/news/2003/dapril/21_mil ler.html.

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59. Ron Fournier, "Bush: Weapons may have been destroyed," Christian Science Monitor, April 25, 2003; "Iraq may have destroyed weapons before war, Rumsfeld says," May 28, 2003.

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60. Kathleen Parker, "No WMD? Let's be realistic, folks," Townhall, May 28, 2003.

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61. Walter Pincus, "Arms linked to 'dual use' facilities," Washington Post, June 2, 2003.

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62. This observation was made by philosopher of science Karl Popper. See "Popper, Karl," at http://www.ul.ie/~philos/vol1/popper.html.

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63. Byron York, "The Truth About Bush's 'Lies,'" National Review, June 16, 2003.

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64. Jonah Goldberg, "Get facts straight before crying 'liar,'" June 27, 2003, Town Hall.

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65. Dana Milbank and Jim VandeHei, "No Political Fallout for Bush on Weapons," Washington Post, May 17, 2003, p. A-1.

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66. Jim Lacey, "Where Are the WMDs?", National Review Online, May 15, 2003.

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67. David Limbaugh, "WMDs: Don't Change the Ground Rules," Townhall, June 4, 2003.

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68. Max Boot, "Blair and Bush Aren't That Stupid," The Daily Standard, June 6, 2003.

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69. William Safire, "'You Lied to Us,'" Naples Daily News, June 3, 2003.

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70. Cal Thomas, "Fact free ... seeds of doubt," Washington Times, July 16, 2003.

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71. Andrew Sullivan, "The Daily Dish," June 1, 2003.

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72. R. Emmett Tyrell, "Too upsetting for the evening news?," Jewish World Review, June 20, 2003.

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73. Quoted in Nat Henthoff, "Obvious evidence of need for intervention," Washington Times, June 16, 2003.

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74. Walid Phares, "Weapons of mass distraction," Washington Times, June 16, 2003.

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75. Stephen R. Shalom, "The United States and the Iran-Iraq War"; Jeremy Scahill, "The Saddam in Rumsfeld's Closet," "Common Dreams," August 2, 2002; Robert Windrem, "Rumsfeld key player in Iraq policy shift," MSNBC, August 18, 2002; Chris Bury, "The U.S.-Iraq relationship was not always about confrontation," September 18, 2002, also at http://abcnews.go.com/sections/nightline/DailyNews/us _iraq_history_1_020917.html; Michael Dobbs, "U.S. Had Key Role in Iraq Buildup," Washington Post, December 30, 2002, p. A-1.

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76. Robert Lane Greene, "Bureaucratic Screw Up," The New Republic Online, June 3, 2003.

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77. Brad Knickerbocker, "Behind the changing rationales for war," Christian Science Monitor, June 13, 2003.

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78. William S. Lind, "The Mystery of the Missing WMDs," United Press International, July 4, 2003.

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79. David Limbaugh, "Whom Do You Trust," Townhall, June 11, 2003.

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80. Pat Morrison, "Revisioning Bush's 'revisionist history,'" National Catholic Reporter, June 30, 2003.

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81. Dana Priest and Dana Milbank, "President Defends Allegation On Iraq," Washington Post, July 15, 2003, p. A-1.

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82. "Iraqi hands over nuclear parts," BBC, June 26, 2003; "Progress reported in Iraq weapons hunt," CNN, June 27, 2003.

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83. "UN agency says nuclear find indicates Baghdad did not restart weapons program," Canadian Press, June 26, 2003.

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84. "U.S. finds possible bio weapon precursor in Iraq," Reuters, June 26, 2003.

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85. "Official believes U.S. has WMD proof," WorldNetDaily, July 12, 2003.

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86. Julian Borger, "US finds evidence of WMD at last — buried in a field in Maryland," The Guardian, May 28, 2003.

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87. "Progress reported in Iraq weapons hunt," CNN, June 27, 2003.

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88. Ken Guggenheim, "Details on Iraqi WMD May Be Released Soon," The Guardian, July 3, 2003; Stephen Dinan, "Senators see proof of arms program," Washinngton Times, July 4, 2003.

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89. Jack Kelley, "Fact free . . . seeds of doubt," Washington Times, July 16, 2003.

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90. Guggenheim, "Details;" Dinan, "Senators see proof of arms program."

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91. Stephen J. Sniegoski, "The war on Iraq: Conceived in Israel," The Last Ditch, February 10, 2003.

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92. PIPA/Knowledge Networks Poll, Press Release, June 4, 2003; Frank Davies, "War poll uncovers fact gap," Philadelphia Inquirer, June 14, 2003.

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93. CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll, June 27-29, 2003.

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94. ABC News/Washington Post Poll, June 18-22, 2003.

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95. CBS News Poll, July 8-9, 2003.

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