Iraq intelligence 'dead wrong'
2005-03-31 17:12
Washington - A presidential commission on US intelligence lapses said Thursday that assessments of Iraq's weapons of mass destructions were "dead wrong" and produced dents in US credibility that will take years to repair.
The conclusions were contained in the final report presented to President George W Bush by the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction.
"We conclude that the intelligence community was dead wrong in almost all of its pre-war judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction," the panel said in a cover letter to Bush.
It said in the conclusion to its report that "the harm done to American credibility by our all too public intelligence failures in Iraq will take years to undo."
- AFP