WMD sham - right from the horse's mouth

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

or horse's ass (wolfowitz).

http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/053103A.shtml

WMD Just a Convenient Excuse for War, Admits Wolfowitz
By David Usborne
Independent Digital

Friday 30 May 2003

The Bush administration focused on alleged weapons of mass destruction as the primary justification for toppling Saddam Hussein by force because it was politically convenient, a top-level official at the Pentagon has acknowledged.

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The extraordinary admission comes in an interview with Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Defence Secretary, in the July issue of the magazine Vanity Fair.

"For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on," Mr Wolfowitz tells the magazine.
The comments suggest that, even for the US administration, the logic that was presented for going to war may have been an empty shell. They come to light, moreover, just two days after Mr Wolfowitz's immediate boss, Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary, conceded for the first time that the arms might never be found.



i know most of you know this already but it needs more exposure.

[aden_nak]

1. There are WMDs. There are not WMDs. Sounds like flip-flopping to me.

[calimary]

2. There MUST be a pony. Under all that horse shit, there MUST be a pony.

Nah - just horse shit.

[TexasSissy]

3. Yes, I don't know why pundits don't mention this more often, esp. Kerry's

representatives who speak for him on the news programs.

[skypilot]

4. I never read that entire article but...

...I did read that excerpt. I would have sworn that that admission would have been all over the news. It's amazing the way members of this administration can just tell people right to their faces that they've been duped and they still don't see it.