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Behind the Changing Rationales For War


— June 13, 2003

“Even as questions stir around the prewar case for ousting Hussein, current challenges in Iraq could test the US public’s support for Bush,” The Christian Science Monitor reports here. The Bush administration seems to be shifting from saying that Iraq “has” weapons of mass destruction to saying that Iraq “had” them in the past. Meanwhile, nearly as many Americans have died in Iraq since the fall of Baghdad as died during the fighting.


“Even as questions stir around the prewar case for ousting Hussein, current challenges in Iraq could test the US public’s support for Bush,” The Christian Science Monitor reports here. The Bush administration seems to be shifting from saying that Iraq “has” weapons of mass destruction to saying that Iraq “had” them in the past. Meanwhile, nearly as many Americans have died in Iraq since the fall of Baghdad as died during the fighting.

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