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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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.
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Oh I'm serious. I gave up arguing seriously here because you guys don't care to think or listen, but I can be very serious.
1 "Days before" Blix thought there were weapons.
2 He also thought we should go on inspecting.
3 He also wouldn't have started a war.
If Blix believed #1, why is it not fair for Bush to have done so? And if Bush believed #1 was true, how can Kerry say authorizing invading Iraq to disarm Sadaam is anything other than having supported the war.
2 and 3 are decisions to be made by the man in charge of the 250K troops we had on Iraq's borders.
Your little WW1 parable fails because Blix didn't "decide" there weren't weapons until AFTER the war.
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