George Bush on Iraq

On 01/29/02 State of the Union address, President Bush began focusing his attention on Iraq, the president had said about Iraq as labeled as part of an "axis of evil" allied with terrorists and posing "a grave and growing danger" to U.S. interests through possession of "weapons of mass destruction". Towards the middle of 2002, the CIA had Saddam Hussein was intent on reconstituting nuclear weapons programs, had not properly accounted for Iraqi biological and chemical weapons, and that some Iraqi missiles had a range greater than allowed by the UN sanctions." The thing that I wonder is "whether the Bush Administration manipulated or exaggerated the threat and evidence of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction capabilities or attempted to create a tie between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda attacks would eventually become a major point of criticism and controversy for the president."On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet reported to President Bush in the Oval Office with a top secret document that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction. Bush dismissed as worthless this information from the Iraqi foreign minister, although it turned out to be accurate in every detail. According to "the intelligence included in the National Intelligence Estimate of October 2002, which stated categorically that Iraq possessed WMD." For the record "no one in Congress was aware of the secret intelligence that Saddam had no WMD as the House of Representatives and the Senate voted, a week after the submission of the NIE, on the Authorization for Use of Military Force in Iraq." Due to the information," it was not circulated within the CIA among those agents involved in operations to prove whether Saddam had WMD."Between 2002 and 2003," President Bush urged the United Nations to enforce Iraqi disarmament mandates, precipitating a diplomatic crisis." In November 2002," Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei led UN weapons inspectors in Iraq, but were forced to depart Iraq four days prior to the U.S. invasion, despite their requests for more time to complete their tasks." In showing the facts, "the U.S. initially sought a UN Security Council resolution authorizing the use of military force but dropped the bid for UN approval due to vigorous opposition from several countries." In the "coalition of the willing" its war effort was a combined rate of over 20 other nations.For a reason the " invasion of Iraq commenced on 03/20/03 and the Iraqi military was quickly defeated. Kofi Annan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, as well as leaders of several nations made statements implying that the attack constituted a war crime." As a result, "the capital, Baghdad, fell on 04/9/03." On 05/1/03, "President Bush declared the end of major combat operations in Iraq." According to "the initial success of U.S. operations had increased President Bush's popularity, but the U.S. and allied forces faced a growing insurgency led by sectarian groups." As the mission was progressing, "Bush's 05/1/03"Mission Accomplished" speech would be criticized as premature." According to "the Bush Administration was also criticized in subsequent months following the report of the Iraq Survey Group, which did not find the large quantities of weapons that the regime was believed to possess." On 12/14/05, Bush stated that "It is true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong," and in Bush's opinion "he nevertheless continued to assert the war had been worthwhile and confirmed he would have made the same decision if he had known more."

Why did George cover up that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction?

Why does George Bush label as Iraq as the axis of evil?

Were the WMDs found?