{"article":{"id":99892,"heading":"What weapons of mass destruction?","author":"C. Powell","created":"2004-01-10 16:41:29","modified":"2005-08-15 02:47:32","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:47:32","article":"<p>U.S. cuts back crew searching for Iraq weapons  <br>  <br> Hint that Bush team may no longer hope to find banned arms  <br>  <br> Douglas Jehl, New York Times Thursday, January 8, 2004  <br><br> Washington -- The Bush administration has quietly withdrawn from Iraq a 400-member military team whose job was to scour the country for military equipment, according to senior government officials. The step was described by some military officials as a sign that the administration might have lowered its sights and no longer expected to uncover the caches of chemical and biological weapons that the White House cited as a principal reason for going to war last March. <\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"&quot;Weapons of mass destruction? Oh that. We were just fooling! When I said that I was &quot;confident that we will find evidence&quot; of wmd's, I was just pulling your leg! Yeah... I know that I was telling anyone who would listen that Iraq had tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve gas... what's the harm in that? So it wasn't the truth? When I said that Iraq was pursuing an atomic weapons program... you didn't really BELIEVE me did you?! So now you know... we were just lying, er, pulling your leg. It was all a joke. Weapons of mass destruction? What weapons of mass destruction?&quot;","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2004\/01\/powell-wmd.jpg","filesize":"21.6 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2004\/01\/99892.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2004\/01\/powell-wmd.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2004\/01\/powell-wmd.jpgthumb.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":100001,"heading":"Denamrk says it's troops have found chemical weapons","article":"Just announced.  Dozens of shells armed with mustard gas.  That's just the tip of the iceberg though.  If the rest is not in Syria, it will still be practically impossible to find.  It's reckoned that the whole kit would be fit in an ordinary garage.  Finding that in a country the size of Iraq was always going to be difficult, without co-operation.","author":"Barney","parent_id":99892,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-01-12 01:39:02","modified":"2004-01-12 01:39:02","fileurl":""}]}