U.S. President George W. Bush announces he will form an independent, bipartisan inquiry presidential commission to probe into prewar intelligence regarding Weapons Of Mass Destruction leading up to the decision to invade Iraq . Former weapons inspector David Kay , meeting with Bush with at the White House , maintains that Bush was right to go to war in Iraq and characterizes Saddam 's Regime as "''far more dangerous than even we anticipated''" when it was thought he had WMDs ready to deploy. [http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/02/02/sprj.nirq.iraq.wmd/index.html [http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2383501]
Pakistan i nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan confesses to smuggling nuclear hardware on chartered planes, sharing secret designs for the centrifuges that produce the enriched uranium necessary to develop a nuclear weapon, and giving personal briefings to nuclear scientists from Iran , North Korea and Libya , believing that Nuclear Proliferation would "ease Western attention on Pakistan" and "help the Muslim cause" {Link without Title}
