Reply #18: What about the continual backpedaling? [View All]

[skip fox]

Yes, I see. But I'm trying to look at all the 'evidence' we have, and I find only one conclusion consistent with aALL the information: no WMDs.

Gotta go, but it's been fun discussing this.

I just think if we look at it entire we'll see that we can more aggressively hold the administration to account. I don't think there's much to worry about.

On edit, hee's the item on today's backpedaling:

<http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iraq-us-bolton,0,6603517.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines>

PARIS -- The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was justified in part because Saddam Hussein retained scientists capable of building
nuclear weapons, Washington's top arms control official said Thursday.

In an interview with The Associated Press, John Bolton, undersecretary of state for arms control, said that whether Saddam's
regime actually possessed weapons of mass destruction "isn't really the issue."

"The issue I think has been the capability that Iraq sought to have ... WMD programs," Bolton said at the U.S. Embassy in
Paris.

Bolton said that Saddam kept "a coterie" of scientists he was preserving for the day when he could build nuclear weapons
unhindered by international constraints.



If we had found WMDs or actually thought we would find some in the future, would Bolton have said this??? And the 'this' is part of a pattern.