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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (480519)5/13/2009 5:39:08 PM
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"Classic Bush failure to take responsibility."

That certainly does not reflect the reality on the ground in 2002-3 when the issue was actually being decided. Bush admitted the flaw in intelligence once it had been discovered, and took responsibility for the invasion with or without WMD justification.

Saddam himself had a major hand in how intelligence was interpreted. He had woven himself into an awful web that he inevitably had to get caught in. He was playing a nasty game of power by deceit. He needed the Shias in his own country to believe he was capable of massive retaliation against murmuring and revolting, and he needed the UN to believe he was cooperating. His messages to everyone contained a hint that neither perspective was completely true. He also had a complex network of world alliances that could turn on him at any moment in which he showed weakness. He planted the seeds of doubt about the WMDs and he did it deliberately.
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