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U.S. Hunt for Iraqi Banned Weapons Slows

By DAFNA LINZER, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. military units assigned to track down Iraqi weapons of mass destruction have run out of places to look and are getting time off or being assigned to other duties, even as pressure mounts on President Bush (news - web sites) to explain why no banned arms have been found.

After nearly three months of fruitless searches, weapons hunters say they are now waiting for a large team of Pentagon (news - web sites) intelligence experts to take over the effort, relying more on leads from interviews and documents.

"It doesn't appear there are any more targets at this time," said Lt. Col. Keith Harrington, whose team has been cut by more than 30 percent. "We're hanging around with no missions in the foreseeable future."

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The only thing that will take longer than the search for WMDs in Iraq, will be the time it takes for the Bushies to come clean and admit they started this war for oil and other resaons related to their hegemonic objectives .

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posted by BadGimp @ 3:20 PM