At 01:20 AM 3/19/2004 -0500 Tom Beck wrote:
>> A deception requires the intent to make someone believe something you
>> know
>> not to be true. I am sorry, but every indication is that they firmly
>> believed in their hearts that Iraq had these weapons. They considered
>> this belief to be the only logical conclusion of Iraq's actions.
>
>Then they deceived themselves. Willfully and by turning a blind eye to
>any evidence that did not fit what they wanted to be true. That's
>almost worse than deceiving us.
A question for you Tom, did Hans Blix deceive himself too? In his latest
book, he says that he believed that Iraq had WMD's before the war as well.
If Hans Blix did not deceive himself, perhaps you would like to retract
your above wild accusation?
JDG
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