That forecast is further reinforced by the unfortunate testimony concerning the CTBT offered yesterday before the Senate Armed Services Committee by General Hugh Shelton .

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Hugh Shelton, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he saw nothing to indicate the United States was close to attacking Iraq early in Bush's term.

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Hugh Shelton, around the beginning of the Clinton administration somebody lost the codes that would have been necessary for the president to launch a nuclear attack (or counter-attack).

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