WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Secretary of State Colin Powell said though the Bush administration was wrong about Iraq's weapons stockpiles, Baghdad still wanted weapons of mass destruction.
"The only thing that I think we got wrong, really, was that he did not have stockpiles," Powell told the Knight-Ridder news service.
The comments come after the release earlier this week of the Duelfer Report that refuted the administration's main rational for war in Iraq -- Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. No weapons have been found and the report said Saddam did not have any WMD or the capability of making them since the 1990s. The report was put together by Charles Duelfer of the administration-appointed Iraq Survey Group.
The Bush administration, however, has insisted Saddam intended to obtain such weapons, thereby justifying why it went to war last year.
"The intention and the capability were there," Powell added.
Powell also said the intelligence that led to war, which later proved to be faulty, seemed reliable at the time.
