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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Neocon who wrote (12736)10/17/2003 12:23:46 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793656
 
In that case, it matters little whether the WMDs are ready to go, the existence of laboratories and specimens, and production facilities ready to queue up as soon as the inspectors are out of the regime's hair, is quite enough.


...in reality. But we're talking perception here. Bush, like everybody else, expected to find stocks of WMDs ready to go, or he never would have hyped it as a reason. That's the most galling thing about the cries of "Liar!" - Bush had multiple reasons for going into Iraq, he never would have hyped one he had doubts of, so that he could look a fool when it didn't pan out. Sheesh.

According to Time, not only did every intelligence service in the world think that Saddam had stocks, so did Saddam himself. No wonder he fooled everybody so well. Time also mentions that they had the habit of storing them unmarked in the middle of their hundreds and thousands of conventional weapons caches. We may find them yet.
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