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Poland 'Deceived' on Iraq WMDs

STAFF | Agence France-Presse | March 19, 2004

"'That they deceived us about the weapons of mass destruction, that's true. We were taken for a ride,' Kwasniewski said."

POLISH President Aleksander Kwasniewski today said that his country had been "taken for a ride" about the alleged existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

"That they deceived us about the weapons of mass destruction, that's true. We were taken for a ride," Kwasniewski said.

He argued however that it made no sense to pull US-led coalition troops out of Iraq.

Poland heads up a 9000-strong multinational force patrolling a swath of Iraq south of Baghdad.

Warsaw itself has the fourth-largest contingent in the coalition, with around 2500 soldiers.

Kwasniewski was speaking days after the prime minister-elect of Spain, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, said Madrid would withdraw its 1300 soldiers from the Polish-led contingent by June 30, unless the United Nations took over administration of Iraq.

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