Home>News Center>World
         
 

Bush: Iraq invasion my responsibility
(AP)
Updated: 2005-12-15 07:17

US President Bush said Wednesday the responsibility for invading Iraq based in part on faulty weapons intelligence rested solely with him, taking on the issue in his most direct and personal terms in the 1,000-plus days since the war's first shots.

"It is true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong," Bush said. "As president, I'm responsible for the decision to go into Iraq."


US President Bush waits to speak, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2005, in Washington. Bush accepted responsibility for going to war with faulty intelligence. [AP]

The president's mea culpa was accompanied by a robust defense of the divisive war.

"Saddam was a threat 錕斤拷 and the American people and the world is better off because he is no longer in power," Bush declared, as he has before.

Democrats were not moved by Bush's speech, the last of four designed to boost his credibility on the war and the public's backing for it.

"There was no reason for America to go to war when we did, the way we did, and for the false reasons we were given," said Sen. Edward Kennedy.

Bush offered few qualms about the failure to find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He said foreign intelligence agencies 錕斤拷 including several for governments who didn't back his decision to invade 錕斤拷 also believed before the war that Saddam Hussein possessed them. And he said his administration has begun making changes to the U.S. intelligence apparatus to head off future errors.

The president also contended the Iraqi president had intended to restart weapons programs.

As in the past, Bush acknowledged no regrets about launching the war despite the problems with his initial justification. He revisited a long list of other previously cited reasons, including Iraqi violations of a no-fly zone in its airspace, Saddam's invasion of Kuwait a decade earlier and Iraq's defiance of United Nations resolutions.

"My decision to remove Saddam Hussein was the right decision," the president said to polite applause from his audience at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a nonpartisan forum for the study of world affairs.

Bush has repeatedly noted that the decision to go to war was his responsibility. And he has acknowledged for more than a year that most of the intelligence behind the claims of Saddam's weapons programs turned out to be faulty. But he has never linked the two so clearly and so personally.
Page: 12



Probe launched into fuel depot blaze near London
Kashmiri earthquake survivor
Sixth WTO Ministerial Conferences to open
 
  Today's Top News     Top World News
 

Human H5N1 case confirmed in Jiangxi

 

   
 

China shores up pension system

 

   
 

Experts begin testing cross-border river

 

   
 

Former senior official gets death for graft

 

   
 

China and Malaysia study economic pact

 

   
 

Bush: Iraq invasion my responsibility

 

   
  Bush: Iraq invasion my responsibility
   
  Angry Lebanese bury assassinated editor
   
  Rumors of poisoned water spread in Baghdad
   
  North Korea denies counterfeiting, urges US to lift sanctions
   
  Bangladesh police arrest suspects in bombing case
   
  UN to pull out Western soldiers from Eritrea
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  News Talk  
  Are the Republicans exploiting the memory of 9/11?  
Manufacturers, Exporters, Wholesalers - Global trade starts here.
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 欧美三级免费观看| 精品无码久久久久久尤物| 国产精品电影网在线好看| а√天堂资源中文在线官网| 日本护士xxxxwww| 亚洲av无码专区国产乱码不卡| 污网站在线观看视频| 免费无码看av的网站| 美女尿口18以下禁止观看免费| 国产亚洲日韩欧美一区二区三区 | 日韩精品欧美一区二区三区| 亚洲国产精品sss在线观看AV| 激性欧美激情在线| 你是我的城池营垒免费看 | 国产色视频在线| 97夜夜澡人人爽人人| 大臿蕉香蕉大视频成人| www好男人精品视频在线观看| 成+人+黄+色+免费观看| 中文字幕欧美日韩一| 男朋友吃我的妹妹怎么办呢| 性调教室高h学校| 久久精品a亚洲国产v高清不卡| 最新国产精品精品视频| 亚洲三级在线播放| 欧美一级www| 亚洲五月激情网| 欧美在线视频免费观看| 亚洲欧洲日产v特级毛片| 欧美视频在线免费| 亚洲欧美日韩中文无线码| 毛片让我看一下毛片| 亚洲理论电影在线观看| 欧美精品亚洲精品日韩专区va| 亚洲精品无码不卡在线播放| 狠狠色欧美亚洲狠狠色www| 人妻少妇精品专区性色AV| 狠狠操天天操视频| 亚洲精品无码国产片| 欧美精品久久久久久久自慰| 亚洲成a人片7777|