BEIJING, July 13 (Xinhuanet) -- In the days of before and after the Iraqi War, the people of the world have always been doubting on the US reasons for launching the war - Iraq owns the weaponry of mass destruction. Even for those Americans who were sent directly into the battlefield bear such a doubt in their minds. It was not until Jul 9 that the US Senate Committee on Intelligence issued an official investigation report to prove the "slip of intelligence" of the US Intelligence Department. Said Tuesday's People's Daily.

    The investigation report of over 500 pages indicates that there is no such thing as so-called "bio-chemical weapons" and "nuclear plan" in Iraq. It is a sheer "collective frame-up" of the analysts, collectors and officials of the US intelligence department.

    In view of the war brought about by the "slip of intelligence", not to say the innocent Iraqi people suffering from the war, even for those 880 American soldiers losing their lives in Iraq and the Americans shouldering a monthly war expenditure of 7 billion US dollars, to bear a bitter memory of it is something quite imaginable. Though the CIA and the relevant organs have to bear the blames yet more and more Americans, especially those who have long been opposing the war are thinking that the government seems impossible to shake off the responsibility, and unable to make itself clean out of it. There is nowhere to find any proof for launching the war. The focus of the people's concerns and arguments has long been shifted from whether it's the "slip of intelligence" to whether the "war should be launched". The newly published public opinion poll by the "USA Today", the CNN and the Gallup shows that the decision of dispatching soldiers to Iraq by Bush Administration was an error. Because everything that has happened in Iraq has not only made most of the Americans feel to have been bogged down in a quagmire but has also damaged the US image in the outside world, leaving behind a big influence and an unfathomable harm.

    Rockefeller, a senior senator of the Democratic Party of the West Virginia said after the release of the Investigation Report: the unreasonable war has landed the US in a more unsecured position and will affect the security of the US for generations to come. The US credibility in the world is on the decrease and its reputation has never been so low as nowadays. We've sown the seeds of hatred among the Moslem World for the American people and have taken roots already whereas the most evil consequences directly evolved is that the US is now most likely to be attacked as never before.

    The report testifying to the "slip of intelligence" is most likely good for Bush to shake off the reprimands from the Democratic Party and many other opponents when he is engaged in reelection campaign. However, in the meanwhile Bush was welcoming and praising the report he seemed to have something otherwise expressed in it. The crux of the report is to make clear that it is necessary and urgent for the US to improve and enforce the intelligence strength. For he did not direct any reprimand at the "slip of intelligence" but help the intelligence department to shake off the responsibility. When he was on the way to Pennsylvania for reelection campaign Bush said even though there was an intelligence slip we all thought at that time Iraq had the weaponry of mass destruction. I thought so, and so held the Senate and the UN too. Moreover, Saddam was capable to make such weaponry of mass destruction. He heaped praises on the personnel of the intelligence department all along the way by saying that they've tried their best.

    Nevertheless he continued to argue in favor of launching the war in Iraq. Even though there was something wrong in the intelligence he would do so should he come to encounter such a situation and threat later on. For when the Saddam regime was overthrown the world and the US would be much safer. He said, should he be given another chance he would launch the war in Iraq again. He stressed that what he was most worried about was the happening once again of the "9.11" incident in the USA. Before the enemy set attacks on us we would rather set attack on them in the territory of Iraq. The strategy and tactics of this government was the offence instead of defence and the preemptive attack to forestall the enemy.

    What Bush has said is more or less like the views and opinions of other US high-ranking officials. When somebody raised the query about the legitimacy for launching the war in Iraq and the criticism on the daily increasing casualties of the US soldiers for the occupation of Iraq, if we have to do it once again like this, we would surely do it, said R. B. Cheney, US Vice President.

    In view of the aforesaid, even though there were a "slip" of intelligence, for Iraq a defined "threat" to the US, the Bush Administration would carry on the war so long as it likes.

    (People's Daily)