A former diplomat who has criticized President Bush's handling of the war in Iraq Thursday appeared to contradict one of the main charges leveled by the "Downing Street Memo" -- a British document suggesting that the Bush administration knew Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction but went to war with Iraq anyway.
But on Thursday, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson admitted that "we all believed" Saddam had WMD.
"I believe the threat to the United States posed by Saddam's weapons of mass destruction -- which we all believed he had -- could have been dealt with using something less violent than the invasion, conquest and occupation of Iraq," Wilson said in a response to a question from Cybercast News Service following a Democrat-sponsored hearing on the matter.
Wilson's comment, that "we all believed" Saddam had WMD, appeared to contradict the memo itself and whether "intelligence and facts" would need to be "fixed around the policy" of invading Iraq if the general consensus was that Saddam possessed WMD.
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