CHENEY, RUMSFELD, WOFOWITZ CLARIFY "MISSTATEMENTS" ON IRAQ'S WMD
Three top Bush administration officials have
backed off charges they made against Iraq, explaining they misspoke or overstated
the facts. Vice President Dick Cheney said the administration has turned up no
nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after stating on March 16,
We believe,
[Saddam Hussein] has
reconstituted nuclear weapons.
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz backtracked from a recent televised claim
that a
great number of bin Ladens key lieutenants are trying to organize
with the Saddam Hussein regime. He said he was actually referring to only on
bin
Laden supporter. And Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld corrected an inaccurate
statement he made on national television concerning Iraqs
weapons of
mass destruction. Eleven days after the invasion, he indicated the U.S. knew where
the weapons were. I should have said I believe
theyre in
that area around Tikrit and Baghdad, he said later.
This
was excerpted from "Intercessors For America On Watch in Washington Prayer
Alert, Sept. 17, 03