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  engineer2 months, 1 week ago

  The book claimed that the former Prime Minister sent a top British spy to the Middle East in 2003 — three months before the invasion — to dig up enough intelligence to avoid war but that President Bush and Dick Cheney, the Vice-President, dismissed any claims or possible evidence that would stop military action.

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  TheRealizer2 months, 1 week ago

  The administration was not going to let facts interfere with with military adventurism!

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  kboy2 months, 1 week ago

  Of course this ignors the fact that Saddam used nerve gas (A WMD for the uninformed) in vast quantity against the Iranians and every government in the world believed he had more. It ignores the hundreds of tons of Yellowcake and other dirty bomb components were found (and removed) from Saddam's arsenal. The source of the information on WMD's was thru the Germans that refused the US access to anything except summery s of statements by defectors from Iraq.

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  skeptic2712 months, 1 week ago

  There is evidence Bush was planning an invasion of Iraq before 9/11. Why - because the conservatives were still mad that Bush Sr. didn't finish the job of removing Saddam Hussein after the first Gulf War. This was the real motivation for the war and Bush didn't want to let anything get in the way. That's why when the UN team that was looking for WMD wasn't finding any, Bush cut their mission short. Had they completed their mission and not found any, Bush wouldn't have had a reason to invade. So we invaded and no WMDs were found, and again the reasons for invading Iraq seemed weak, so new evidence such as the yellow cake memo had to be fabricated.

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  spkguy2 months ago

  The secret Downing Street memo
  
  "C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
  
  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article387374.ece

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  CHAM2 months ago

  Did you notice Conde Rice on the shows today saying that this White House wouldn't so such a thing. I listened with both ears trying to hear her call for an investigation to clear the good Bush name. I must have missed it.

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  Natureboy2 months ago

  WMDs were the excuse, but never the reason. If WMDs plus Islamic extremism were the trigger, we would be occupying Pakistan, not Iraq.

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