President defends Iraq war rationale

Cites arms capability, downgrades early peril

By Anne E. Kornblut

Globe Staff / July 13, 2004

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WASHINGTON -- President Bush yesterday countered mounting criticism of the 2003 invasion of Iraq by declaring that even without stockpiles of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, Saddam Hussein possessed ''the capability of producing weapons of mass murder" and could have passed the technology along to terrorists if the United States and its allies had not acted to stop him. (Full Article: 1064 Words)