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Originally Posted by Nor
I'm not getting into a quote war with you. But its not rubbish. As Kay said it seems Saddam wanted everyone to think he had WMD. He refused to provide the evidence showing their destruction.
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Which just shows that, whatever else you may say about him, he was an astute political operator. He managed to keep the UN dancing around for ten years on this matter.
It was only when Bush decided that, no matter *what* the facts were, he was going to invade anyway that Saddam's strategy went wrong.
The fact is, though, that the justification for war was based on (let's be charitable) "faulty intelligence".
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Without the benefit of hindsight it is not rubbish to believe that it was a fair assessment they had WMD.
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You can believe what you want, however I prefer to rely on insignificant little things like *facts* to provide a good reason to go to war.
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What you were wanting was for Tony Blair to ignore his intelligence advisors telling him Iraq posed a WMD threat.
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Thank you for telling me what I wanted...
Except that I wanted no such thing. I wanted him to base his decision to go to war on *facts* and *truth* rather than dubious assessments and dodgy dossiers.