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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
LA Times:
Former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said Tuesday that until the final days before the war, he and U.S. officials and perhaps even Saddam Hussein believed that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. But rather than taking the time to find out for sure, he said, the momentum of war preparations made the Bush administration deaf to evidence that contradicted their conclusions.
If everyone, even Blix believed they were there, how can Kerry's position be sound?
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As so often, I start to wonder whether you are serious. Blix was receptive to facts which contradicted what he believed, and he changed his mind. Bush wasn't, and didn't. Had WMD been the reason for the war, and had we had a President who listened to what Blix et al. were (not) turning up, you can easily imagine a different outcome. Congress could not know, ex ante, that Bush was hell-bent on war, although certainly signs were there.
It's like Archduke Franz Ferdinand turned up alive, on an opium bender in Belgrade, but the Kaiser et al. said, what the hell, we've already mobilized the forces so let's do it.
