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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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Was it reasonable belief? Hope? I sure hope he isnt' running faith-based foreign policy.
As to why SH was playing those games, it has been widely explained that SH wanted his neighbors to think he had them so they wouldn't take advantage of a weakened Iraq, he wanted his people to believe he had them to keep them in line, and he wanted everyone to see him as standing up to the big, bad US of A. I'm sure this was explained to the President prior to the war, he just didn't want to believe it.
