Posted on 07/15/2003 3:50:30 PM PDT by WL-law
Just heard on NBC-News that Tariq Aziz has told interrogators that Saddam Hussain believed right up to the last moment that the US would not invade Iraq, due to "international pressure".
Translated, that means, as many americans believed all along, that France and Germany (the main voices of 'international pressure') were, in effect, responsible for creating the neccessity for a hot war.
It was their action, in opposition to the UN mandate and US pressure, that threw a lifeline of hope to Saddam, to which he hung on to the last, instead of taking the more reasonable approach of giving up power and leaving in exile.
So now we have official confirmation from the Saddam inner circle -- the blood is on France's hands.
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