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Originally posted by theking
Do you seriously believe that the President, Chaney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, and multiple four star Generals as well as Congressmen on the Intelligence committees are so stupid that they would publically predicate a war on WMDs knowing that WMDs would not be found? Isn't it more logical to assume that is the intel they were provided?
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Given the way they have behave, I would say it's more logical to assume that they would say whatever they believed neccessary to get the results they wanted: Support for war against Iraq. I don't think whether their statements are true or not even entered into their consideration - only whether they could be defended later.
If they'd gotten more public support by saying that small green martians had invaded Iraq and they needed to save mankind, I'm sure we'd heard that too. The reaction of people like you makes it quite easy to get away with lies and more lies.
Sure, there is absolutely a _possibility_ that they actually believed there were WMD's there. There's even a possibility there actually was WMD's there. But fact is, so far they haven't been found, despite statements engineered to at least give the impression that there were rock hard proof (which would indicate that one knows WHERE they are as well, or they couldn't know whether they'd later been disposed of).
Given the statements that have been coming out of the US government it appears extremely likely that someone has at the very least been stretching the truth, or done a very ad job at fact checking. Whether it's the administration or the intelligence community? I would say the administration, for the very simple reason that the CIA recommended AGAINST a war, and the Rumsfeld and in particular Wolfowitz are well known to have wanted a reshaping of the Middle East for years and years.