They link to the WaPo article below. I remember it was really falling apart by that time. And the admin was desperate to give Turkey nearly 26 billion in grants and loan guarantees to come in from the north.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42517-2003Mar17?language=printer

Bush Clings To Dubious Allegations About Iraq

By Walter Pincus and Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, March 18, 2003; Page A13

As the Bush administration prepares to attack Iraq this week, it is doing so on the basis of a number of allegations against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein that have been challenged -- and in some cases disproved -- by the United Nations, European governments and even U.S. intelligence reports.


>Since someone thought it was too quiet here, I found the below link rather interesting. But those with a faint of heart for this stuff beware for the article has a heading of:
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>Lie by Lie: Chronicle of a War Foretold: August 1990 to March 2003
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>http://www.motherjones.com/bush_war_timeline/