'Misrepresented' WMD threat

Even a military team, comprising of American experts who had been desperately searching for weapons in Iraq, has been withdrawn after finding nothing of substance. What else does the US administration need to believe the inevitable truth? However, another team remains in Iraq because, according to reports, the missile programme 'appeared' to have been in active development in 2002 and Iraq was supposedly planning to build missiles with ranges that exceeded UN limits. Is there really no limit to assumption? We want an end to this process of prevarication once and for all.

So far, all we have heard was about Iraq's intention to build long range missiles, but when would the US administration understand that intention is not a verifiable thing, only physical presence is. Therefore the sooner the US realises this, the better it is for all of us. No matter how hard they keep on trying to find weapons of mass destruction, the stark reality will only stare on their faces. And the withdrawal of the US search team rings the finality for any further such operations in Iraq. We hope the US will get the message and put an end to all kinds of prevarication in order to justify their unjust actions so far.

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