Bull pucky. Very few thought he had them. Some said he might. The Italian letter was so suspect that British papers turned it down as a forgery and wouldn't print about it. yet, it proved what Bush wanted to hear, real or not. Most including the IAEA said there was no evidence of WMD other than the reciepts for those weapons the USA sold to Sadam during the Iraq - Iran war. He was bluffing (both the West and Iran), and didn't want to appear to be pushed around by the West. We had far more evidence of WMDs in North Korea, Pakistan & India prior to their announcements. The WMD excuse holds no water. It was a political hot point in the wake of 9/11 and the bush administration used it to their advantage.
Robert Munn wrote: > That was the pretext- keep up! ;-) > > Seriously, almost everyone, including the British, the Fench, the Italians- > thought he had WMD stockpiles. I still want to know what was carted off to > the Bekka Valley in Russian trucks before the war, but it seems pretty clear > now that Saddam engaged in one of history's biggest bluffs. Still, he had > plans for all kinds of WMDs, scientists to do the production work, and > willing partners to help him (e.g. Libya and Niger), until we dethroned him. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:234235 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
