By Adam Entous, Reuters, 1/30/2004 comments by marcosolo 1/31/2004

WASHINGTON -- President Bush's national security adviser yesterday acknowledged there may have been flaws in prewar intelligence about Iraq but brushed aside calls for an independent investigation into the matter.

ms: would Saddam have ordered an independent investigation into his own secret affairs? Unfortunately there exists no higher independent institution in the decomcracy of the United States wich could force these bankrupcy creators in the White House to allow all the curtains covering their ugly secrets to be lifted and thanks of Bush's earlier intervention there exists worldwide no international court which could order such an investigation

"I think that what we have is evidence that there are differences between what we knew going in and what we found on the ground," Condoleezza Rice told CBS.

But she added: "That's not surprising in a country that was as closed and secretive as Iraq, a country that was doing everything that it could to deceive the United Nations, to deceive the world."

isn't it remarkable how well she knows her enemy? Only murders know the feeling one has killing a person. How nice she describes the actions of her own country and all the circumstances since JFK, the moonlanding and the events of 9/11. You seem to be a real insider. Be careful that they will not start one day an insider investigation on your own person in exactly the same matter you just accused Iraq - killing their own people using weapons of WMD even if in your own case their were planes and bombs used for the same purpose.

Bush based his decision to invade Iraq last year on what he called a "grave and gathering danger" posed by Iraq's weapons. He acted without United Nations backing, cutting short efforts by UN inspectors to check out the weapons reports in Iraq.

a clear warcrime, governor bush. You will receive your punishment one day if not in this life latest after death in hell...

In a series of television interviews, Rice defended Bush's decision and said the United States may never learn the whole truth about Iraq's arms capabilities because of looting.

as with the cement and steel brought away from the WTC in a top secret manner and believe it or not, the steel was brought to China and the cement and other relicts are stored in a secret location. You and the hole Bush administration deserves an entry in the Guiness book of records for deceptions of the century

For months administration officials had expressed confidence banned weapons would be found.

But after the top US weapons hunter concluded Iraq had no stockpiles of biological or chemical weapons, the White House said on Monday it would review prewar intelligence. On Tuesday, Bush tempered his prewar insistence that Iraq had an arsenal of banned weapons.

The White House said Rice was not breaking any new ground yesterday. "As we've always said, intelligence is never perfect," said one senior administration official.

Rice said the US team hunting for Iraq's weapons would "gather all of the facts that we possibly can," leaving open the possibility that its findings may be inconclusive.

She blamed gaps in data on looters who sacked government offices after the invasion and on ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, who she said was so secretive that "he allowed the world to continue to wonder" what weapons he still had.

as in your case with the role of your administration and the secret services in the events of 9/11

Critics say the administration did little to secure sensitive sites immediately after the invasion, undercutting efforts to find the evidence of weapons.