"HOWEVER. Had you read Blix's excellent book on the subject (Disarming Iraq), you would know that Blix is clear in his account that he believes Bush would NOT have gone to war had ne not been convinced of Saddam's WMD. I repeat: Blix says, in his own book in his own words, that he believes Bush BELIEVED that Saddam had the WMD, and that Bush would NOT have gone to war otherwise."
Of course Bush believed it, he wanted to believe just as Brumey wants to believe in Creation or an ID.... If he were convinced it was not true, he would have had a helluva problem ordering the invasion. But Blix also reveals that:
"Having declared war on terrorism, President Bush needed "to eliminate this perceived threat well before the next presidential election". The president, Blix feels, sincerely believed that Iraq was pursuing WMD but neither Dick Cheney, the vice-president, nor Donald Rumsfeld at the defence department had any commitment to inspections. Even before Unmovic carried out its first inspection on November 27 2002, Cheney was telling Blix that the "US was ready to discredit inspections in favour of dis armament", that is, invasion. Even Colin Powell, the secretary of state, who was quoted on February 24 2001 as saying Saddam did not have "any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction", had shifted.
Bush was fully informed of the Blix reports, but Blix asked for two more weeks to inspect the few remaining sites....Bush refused and invaded..... Had he gone for it and Blix once again reported no WMD, Bush would have had to invade an unarmed nation with all the world consequences that that brought.... As it was, he is perceived as one the world's most egregious liars....
"But the point is that Blix, in his own words, has debunked everything you have said. Every point you have made is contrary to Blix's OWN conclusions."
You are totally full of shit.....I never denied that Bush believed in the WMD, but I do maintain that he knew they didn't exist before he invaded and had even tapped Blix's phone and fax for purposes of undermining his credibility.
I made no points Blix disageed with since I was using his own testimony to make any points I made. And I only made one...that is, that Bush knew and the world knew that Blix had found no WMD and Bush invaded anyway...
And don't lie about reading his book.....you've read some reviews, not the book, you prick. |
