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Politesub53 -> RE: Condi Rice Schools Katie Couric On Iraq (12/17/2010 12:16:11 PM)
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ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY
Your first link was from "the official UK inquiry"?
You mean the article from The Mirror?
Where it says ""We did on 10th March get a report that chemical weapons might have remained dismantled... and the suggestion Saddam might lack warheads capable of effective dispersal of agents." [emphasis added].
You mean the one that talks about "might" and "suggestions"?
Look, I don't know what Bush and Blair "knew in their heart", or were convinced of, exactly, and neither do you. I'm not even convinced that WMD's were the primary "real" reason for the invasion.
However, I do try to read closely, and keep in mind the conflicting and complex reality of the situation, and realize that many people have their own agenda.
You just seem to make your mind up and seek justification for your anger, and beliefs.
Cherry picking, in other words.
Firm
I do have anger for those that cause thousands to die for no real reason. As for your continued accussation of me cherry picking, do a search on the net. There have been many articles in the mainstream media backing up what I and others are saying. Yet despite thast you are very selective in what you have posted from the report ( lets also remember the Mirror is a Labour supporting paper )
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But Sir William Ehrman, former Foreign Office director for defence and intelligence, told the hearing: "We did on 10th March get a report that chemical weapons might have remained dismantled... and the suggestion Saddam might lack warheads capable of effective dispersal of agents."
The inquiry heard that Saddam was not even close to developing WMD with much intelligence "patchy, sporadic" and "simply wrong".
Sir William, now ambassador to China, said: "There were huge gaps in intelligence ... all flagged up to ministers,"
As we can see, all the doubts were flagged up to Blair, who would no doubt have talked about this to Bush. Yet Blair still stated to the nation that the evidence was "Beyond doubt" Personally I would call that comment, along with the one that Iraq could use WMDs on the Uk within 45 minutes, lies of the greatest magnitude. Both said in order to coerce (SP) the House of Commons to agree to his plans for invasion.
As for the reason for invading Iraq, I have stated many times on here that I think it was over the petrodollar, more so than the actual oil. Americas economy relies heavily on keeping the status quo and not trading oil in any other currency, such as the Euro.
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