Bush insists Iraq war was right

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee – Dogged by election-year doubts over the invasion of Iraq, US President George W Bush insisted yesterday that the war was justified despite the failure to find weapons of mass destruction there.

“Although we have not found stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, we were right to go into Iraq,” he said. “We removed a declared enemy of America, who had the capability of producing weapons of mass murder and could have passed that capability to terrorists bent on acquiring them,” said Bush.Bush’s central public rationale for war centred on Iraq’s alleged arsenals of weapons of mass destruction, none of which have been found, and supposed ties to al Qaeda, which have been dismissed by the official investigation into the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks by Osama bin Laden’s network.- Nampa-AFP”We removed a declared enemy of America, who had the capability of producing weapons of mass murder and could have passed that capability to terrorists bent on acquiring them,” said Bush.Bush’s central public rationale for war centred on Iraq’s alleged arsenals of weapons of mass destruction, none of which have been found, and supposed ties to al Qaeda, which have been dismissed by the official investigation into the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks by Osama bin Laden’s network.- Nampa-AFP