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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