http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1667583,00.html
President Bush conceded yesterday that much of the pre-war intelligence on Iraq “turned out to be wrong” but took sole responsibility for ordering the invasion, which he said was justified by the potential threat posed by Saddam Hussein. Mr Bush has acknowledged flaws in US intelligence on Iraq before, but this was his most wholehearted acknowledgment to date of the scale of the errors underlying his administration’s allegations over Saddam’s alleged weapons of mass destruction. “It is true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong,” he said. But he repeated the administration’s frequently made defence that other intelligence agencies had made similar mistakes, and Democratic politicians had voted for war based on the same intelligence the president had seen. However, Mr Bush acknowledged that the final decision to invade had been his alone. “As president, I am responsible for the decision to go into Iraq,” he said. It was revealed yesterday, on the eve of elections in Iraq, that the Pentagon had set up a $300m (