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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Was it reasonable belief? Hope? I sure hope he isnt' running faith-based foreign policy.
As to why SH was playing those games, it has been widely explained that SH wanted his neighbors to think he had them so they wouldn't take advantage of a weakened Iraq, he wanted his people to believe he had them to keep them in line, and he wanted everyone to see him as standing up to the big, bad US of A. I'm sure this was explained to the President prior to the war, he just didn't want to believe it.
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Before the invasion I gave some friends the option of 100-1 odds that we would find WMDs in Iraq. No one took my bet. I thought it laughable that anyone thought that there might not be WMDs. If I were Bush, I don't care what the intelligence guys told me, there is no way you would have convinced me that Iraq had no WMDs. And if our intelligence was sure there were no WMDs why did our military take such precautions assuming that they did? No one entered that theater with out a full chemical suit.
