From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:16:13 -0500, Gene McAloon
 wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:02:57 -0400, "Mark"
 wrote:
>
>> For a variety of reasons Saddam wanted it to appear as if he had WMD. He
>> miscalculated the possible ramifications of that tactic (he obviously
>> based
>> his actions on past performance of the world, but didn't figure on
>> Bush) and
>> was removed because of it. Whether he actually had them was, and
>> remains,
>
> Not a bit of truth in that. It was Saddam who claimed he had destroyed
> all of
> his WMD. It was Saddam who invited the UN to send inspectors back into
> Iraq to
> confirm it. Only then did the UN do so under the Blix inspectorate. It
> was
> Saddam who provided documentation to support his claim.
>
> Is yours the latest spin by the Republicans on what happened, a spin
> that is
> supposed to justify Bush illegal invasion of Iraq? If so, it is another
> in a
> long list of dumb excuses. It is simply contrary to all the known facts.
>
>

BLIX rejected Saddam's "documentation."

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Gary Wiltshire

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