(7 Oct 2004) SHOTLIST
1. Close-up of President Bush walking to podium
2. Wide of Bush at podium
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, U.S. President:
"Chief Weapons Inspector Charles Duelfer has now issued a comprehensive report that confirms the earlier conclusion of David Kay, that Iraq did not have the weapons that our intelligence believed were there. The Duelfer report also raises important new information about Saddam Hussein's defiance of the world and his intent and capability to develop weapons. The Duelfer report showed that Saddam was systematically gaming the system, using the UN Oil for Food Programme to try to influence countries and companies in an effort to undermine sanctions."
4. People watching and listening to President Bush
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, U.S. President:
"Based on all the information we have today, I believe we were right to take action and America is safer today with Saddam Hussein in prison."
6. Close-up of President Bush's hands
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, U.S. President:
"The Duelfer report makes clear that much of the accumulated body of 12 years of our intelligence and that of our allies was wrong and we must find out why, and correct the flaws."
8. Newspaper kiosks on the street
9. Push in on headline of the Baltimore Sun reading "Top Inspector says Iraq had no illicit arms"
10. Graphic from Iraq Survey Group report reading "Key Findings"
11. Graphic from Iraq Survey Group report reading "ISG found no evidence that Iraq possessed, or was developing BW (Biological Warfare) agent"
12. Political Analyst Stephen Hess walking in to Brookings Institute
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Stephen Hess, Senior Fellow Emeritus in Governance Studies, The Brookings Institute:
"But it continues the momentum of Iraq as an issue that will be driven home forcefully I would assume by Senator Kerry in the next debate. The question becomes whether there are any votes left on this issue. Americans seem mostly to have made up their mind whether it made sense or not."
14. Women walking babies on the street
15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Voxpop:
"Well, it confirms my distrust of the current administration."
16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Voxpop:
"It doesn't surprise me at all. I knew that Bush was lying to us from day one and that he never really thought that there were weapons of mass destruction and it was just a deception."
17. Various views newspaper headlines in kiosks on a street corner
STORYLINE:
Faced with a harshly critical new report, United States President George W. Bush conceded on Thursday that Iraq did not have the stockpiles of banned weapons he had warned of before the invasion last year, but insisted that "we were right to take action" against Saddam Hussein.
Speaking to reporters as he prepared to fly to Wisconsin, President Bush insisted that "America is safer today with Saddam Hussein in prison."
However, he admitted that much of the intelligence "was wrong and we must find out why."
Bush spoke one day after Charles Duelfer, the American weapons hunter in Iraq, presented to the Senate and the public a report
that Saddam's weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) programs had deteriorated into only hopes and dreams by the time of the US-led invasion last year.
The chief US weapons hunter found that the decline was wrought by the first Gulf War and years of international sanctions.
Political analyst Stephen Hess said that the report left little room for the Bush Administration to continue to defend their past comments on WMDs in Iraq.
That was born out by reactions to the headlines in the streets of Washington, DC.
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