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Law suits and the President
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Originally posted by Spanky
I would agree with most of this except for the fact that I believe that Bush believed that there were WMDs. Why else would Saddam have been playing those games? As good as our intel is it could not tell him for sure one way or another - and the way Saddam Hussein was acting any reasonble person would have concluded he had WMDs.
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Maybe Bush did believe it, but it was reckless to tune out facts inconsistent with those beliefs, and it was reckless to say things that were unsupported by the facts. Foreign policy is one place where a president shouldn't be reckless.
As to why Hussein was acting that way, you could chalk it up to brinksmanship, or to him acting irrationally, or to a fear that captitulating would leave his grasp on power much weakened.
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