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Originally Posted by PaulS
Detbuch - if he said that then he was wrong. I'm not here to defend him.
Jim - I watched on tv the same things you did and thought there were WMDs. I also thought Blitz (??) should have been given the more time he wanted to continue looking. The point it that the adm. seemed to have ignored or down played every bit of evidence that was contrary to their view that they had WMDs. Look what they did with the tubes, Libby planted the story then they used that story to justify the invasion. Seems like there are more hearings on what happened the first few days in Bengazi than what happened then.
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Of course, you have a point.
But I keep coming back to this...Bush gave Saddam plenty of chances to avoid war by letting the inspectors do their job (which he was obligated to do). If Bush was hell-bent on war, he wouldn't have gived Saddam a dozen chances to avoid war by simply complying with international law. To say that Bush had made up his mind to invade and wasn't going to be dissuaded, is refuted by that simple fact.
Lots of people were wrong. If you want to call that a sign of some degree of incompetence on the part of everyone who was wrong, that's got some validity to it I guess. I'd call it an honest mistake, not something that was a calculated deception.