Rumsfeld in ‘shocking’ admission over Iraq war

US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday admitted the US motive for going to war with Iraq was motivated by the events of September 11, rather than any new information on weapons of mass destruction.

“The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq’s pursuit of weapons of mass murder”, Mr Rumsfeld said while testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

“We acted because we saw the existing evidence in a new light through the prism of our experience on September 11,” he said.