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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Neocon who wrote (437367)8/1/2003 7:42:21 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
There is a bold and entirely plausible theory ....

That's pretty much the theory that reasonable people had before the hysteria that preceeded the war.

Saddam Hussein, the theory holds, ordered the destruction of his weapon stocks well before the war to deprive the United States of a rationale to attack his regime and to hasten the eventual lifting of the United Nations sanctions.

Well, before the war, starting in 1991 and ending a few years later. Even during the first Bush war it would be clear to the Iraqis that chemical and biological weapons would be more of a hinderance than a valid weapon. They might have buried a few parts under the roses, but that type of weapons only provided problems while he was dealing with the U.N., which turned out to be a much more effective deterrent than bombs and cruise missles.

Not that it would have mattered, the neocons were determined to capture the oil fields regardless of what the Iraqis did.

TP
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