One by one, official reports by government investigators, statements by
former administration officials and internal CIA analyses have combined to
undermine many of the central rationales of the administration's case for
war with Iraq -- and its handling of the post-invasion occupation.
The release of yesterday's definitive account on Iraq's weapons -- and its
conclusion that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction years before the
U.S.-led invasion -- is only the latest in a series of damaging blows to the
White House's strategy of portraying the war in Iraq as being on the cusp of
success.
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