That's ridiculous. That would imply that he wanted to be attacked and lose power. Forget all the posturing and mind games that may have been taking place, the US and the Britts claimed that he had them and the Britts were so eager to make the point they even produced false documents. Okay, we went to war based on, what would have to be rock solid evidence because we are talking about going to war, and so the question just hangs out there -- where are the WMD? Keep in mind that we were so sure that we couldn't even let the UN inspectors finish their job. Couldn't be that we already knew that the UN wouldn't find anything now would it?
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Or that he thought this would deter attack. Or that he was just delusional.
the Britts were so eager to make the point they even produced false documents
Source? Andrew Gilligan?
Okay, we went to war based on, what would have to be rock solid evidence because we are talking about going to war,
For the record, I don't agree that one has to go to war only based on evidence which is "rock solid".
so the question just hangs out there -- where are the WMD?
That's true. We may find out the answer to this question eventually. I can wait. The internet makes people impatient and jumpy, but really, I can wait.
Couldn't be that we already knew that the UN wouldn't find anything now would it?
Actually, I think it's precisely because we knew that the UN wouldn't find anything that we had to give up the whole charade.