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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (756745)	1/3/2007 10:31:28 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

"why did that nut job sadam insane play such a stupid cat and mouse game with us if he had no WMD?" How would I 'know' why politicians or insular dictators do foolish, misguided things? Some people have suggested that Saddam thought the mere threat of hypothetical 'WMDs' would be enough to give him a measure of political and military POWER (& thus it was unnecessary to actually come up with billions that he no longer had to re-develop programs long abandoned or previously destroyed by decades of war and privation). In other words: something for nothing. A bluff. But I could no more 'explain' to you why he would make a dumb decision such as that then I could explain to you why Bush II believed it would be fruitful to protect the Saudis and Pakistanis connected to the 9/11 attacks and extremist anti-American fundamentalist sects. (Neither seems to be very wise decisions to me....)