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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
By the time you hit number 4, you really stop trying, don't you? That one's just sort of "yeah, we're stupid and crazy", isn't it? I hope you were laughing as you wrote those.
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Nope. I recognize, first, that things are rarely as monolithic as we want them to be. W had certain reasons and rationales (including his tendency and need to demonstrate "resolve"), Rummy and Cheney had others, Condi and Powell had more, and people who voted in Congress had more. So when I talk about "reasons" I'm talking about reasons that various people involved in the decision had. This wasn't a unilateral decision by one person who overrode contrary opinions from his close advisors.
And I fundamentally have trouble with the notion that no one in the administration, let along Congress, actually believed the WMD rationale. It was bogus, it was highly paranoid, but to suggest -- as you do -- that it was pure fiction that no one ever actually believed? I guess I lack that level of arrogance.
