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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (148983)10/25/2004 6:45:25 PM
From: dumbmoney  Read Replies (5) of 281500
 
It is absolutely false that everyone thought Iraq had "WMD". What is true is that most people thought Iraq MIGHT have some residual chemical weapons. There is no equivalence between Bush saying "DEFINITELY" and most others saying "MAYBE". Nor was there agreement on key points: whether Iraq was developing a nuclear bomb, and more generally whether Iraq was a "gathering" threat as Bush claimed. The international consensus was that Iraq was not a gathering threat; rather, that Iraq was weak and getting weaker.

The "bad intel" was the excuse for war, not the reason for it.
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