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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
#1 was people knew we hadn't found them in the last X years. This isn't wrong- I knew that Blix hadn't found anything. It isn't irrelevent to your portrait of Bush ignoring a General who said "we haven't found anything."
#2 was everyone assumed he had them. Someone posted a quote where Blix said he assumed sadaam had some. the UN kept sanctions on. Why?
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You're right about #1. My bad for being imprecise.
Blix may have "assumed" he would find weapons, and yet there is a difference between the public statements he made and those Bush made. And there were lots of reasons for the sanctions, not just WMD. Recall that the first war was prompted by SH's invasion of Kuwait, not by his use of chemical weapons.
