White House retreats on weapons claim

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

Bush said he had no misgivings about going to war against Iraq but he refrained from saying -- as he once did -- that weapons of mass destruction would be discovered. "There is no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein was a gathering threat to America and others. That's what we know."

"We know he was a dangerous man in a dangerous part of the world," the president said.

The issue was injected into the presidential campaign when retired chief U.S. weapons inspector David Kay said he had concluded, after nine months of searching, that deposed Saddam did not have stockpiles of forbidden weapons. Confronted with Kay's statement, administration officials declined to repeat their once-ironclad assertions that Saddam had them.

Somebody better tell Cheney.

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