03 Jun 2004 a netfriend wrote:

The New York Times now felt obliged to apologise to its readers for the many sensational pre-war WMD reports it had published as a result of Chalabi-inspired help. It was clear that a Western-wide, INC-disseminated disinformation campaign, on Saddam Hussein’s weapons and links with al-Qaeda, had provided the neo-cons inside the Bush Administration – unwittingly let us hope – with the casus belli for the war they had long desired….

…. and at the same time delivered Iran what eight years of war [’80-’88] had failed to do, namely the toppling of Saddam and the end of Sunni domination.