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Rove: defends Iraq war, torture
"Did Bush lie us into war? Absolutely not," Karl Rove wrote in his new book, CNN reported on Saturday. In 2003, the US attacked Iraq under the pretext that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, but an official CIA report in 2005 confirmed that there were no such weapons in the country. Rove also made the extraordinary claim that Washington would 'not' have gone to war with Iraq if the administration knew that weapons of mass destruction would not be found. "Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it," he wrote.