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The United States admitted that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction at the time of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but President George W. Bush insisted the war was right.A report of more than 1,000 pages prepared by Charles Duelfer, the chief US weapons inspector, swept aside the president’s justification for launching the conflict in March 2003 to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. The report concluded Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons, and nuclear development, were mainly eradicated after the 1991 Gulf War but Saddam wanted UN sanctions lifted to rebuild his arsenal.Full Story