"Powell said:

"The open question is, how many stocks they had, if any, and if they had any, where did they go, and if they didn't have any, then why wasn't that known beforehand?"

"Powell vigorously defended the U.S. intelligence community, whose estimates of Iraq's weapons programs reflected the consensus of other foreign governments and President Bush's predecessor."

"Powell on Saturday blamed Saddam for much of the uncertainty.

"What we demanded of Iraq was that they account for all of this and they prove the negative of our hypothesis. All they did was make statements without proving it," he said."


In such, the White House is giving a more aggressive response.



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