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Re: Well, Sidd, their point is as good as most of yours...
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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
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.
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Of course some people believed it. Doesn't change that it was, indeed, total fiction.
And an enormous expenditure of American credibility. At best, Obama can only make a small down payment on recovering that credibility.
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