Democrats urge inquiry into 'misleading' Iraq war intelligence

AMID new questions about US President George W Bush's determination to remove Saddam Hussein as Iraq's president, several US Democrats have called for an official inquiry to determine whether he intentionally misled Congress.

At a forum where the word "impeachment" loomed large, Exhibit A was the so-called Downing Street memo leaked to The Sunday Times.

Recounting a meeting of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's national security team, the memo says the Bush administration believed war was inevitable and was determined to use intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the ousting of Saddam.