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Well, yes, but we had no way to prove it. You were paranoid, too.

Remember what a White HOuse official said in September 2002 to justify suddenly talking about invading Iraq? From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in the Summer. It was then that I suspected it was all bullshit, but I didn't know until I listened to the UN Security Council session where the "evidence" was presented in early 2003.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Feb 17th, 2006 at 08:12:13 AM EST
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Well, yes, but we had no way to prove it. You were paranoid, too.

Cheney1s pre-emptive dismissal of UN/IAEA inspectors and war call (which provoked Schröder's rebellion). "Saddam threw out the inspectors in 1998".

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Fri Feb 17th, 2006 at 05:55:04 PM EST
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The CIA infiltrated the inspectors, and then the US forced the UN to recall them in order to get them out of the way of bombing raids. All this was reported by the US press back in 1998, but by 1992 everyone had forgotten who did who, and the newspapers didn't bother being consistent with what they published back then.

You would think propaganda and rewriting history would be a little harder.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Feb 18th, 2006 at 06:17:56 AM EST
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