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**klnbgqr** · 04-04-2010, 02:38 AM

There are three things some people want to forget about Bush/Iraq:

Prior to 2001 most people thought that Saddam and Iraq had large stocks of WMDs… we have all seen the video cuts… AlGore, Hillary, etc, all pronouncing what a danger Saddam was with all those WMDs. So much was this the case that the Iraq war resolution passed 296 -133 in the House and 77-23 in the Senate. Hell Tom Daschle co-sponsored the resolution in the Senate.

George Tenet Mr. ‘Slam Dunk’

Says Woodward: “George Tenet's sitting on the couch, stands up, and says, ‘Don't worry, it's a slam dunk case.’" And the president challenges him again and Tenet says, ‘The case, it's a slam dunk.’ ...I asked the president about this and he said it was very important to have the CIA director – ‘Slam-dunk is as I interpreted is a sure thing, guaranteed. No possibility it won't go through the hoop.’ Others present, Cheney, very impressed.”

What did Woodward think of Tenet’s statement? “It’s a mistake,” he says. “Now the significance of that mistake - that was the key rationale for war.”

It was just two weeks later when the president decided to go to war.

Lastly… we know now that Saddam Husain actually lied about having WMDs.

Saddam Hussein told an FBI interviewer before he was hanged that he allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction because he was worried about appearing weak to Iran, according to declassified accounts of the interviews released yesterday.

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klnbgqr Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 462 Senior Member	There are three things some people want to forget about Bush/Iraq: Prior to 2001 most people thought that Saddam and Iraq had large stocks of WMDs… we have all seen the video cuts… AlGore, Hillary, etc, all pronouncing what a danger Saddam was with all those WMDs. So much was this the case that the Iraq war resolution passed 296 -133 in the House and 77-23 in the Senate. Hell Tom Daschle co-sponsored the resolution in the Senate. George Tenet Mr. ‘Slam Dunk’ Says Woodward: “George Tenet's sitting on the couch, stands up, and says, ‘Don't worry, it's a slam dunk case.’" And the president challenges him again and Tenet says, ‘The case, it's a slam dunk.’ ...I asked the president about this and he said it was very important to have the CIA director – ‘Slam-dunk is as I interpreted is a sure thing, guaranteed. No possibility it won't go through the hoop.’ Others present, Cheney, very impressed.” What did Woodward think of Tenet’s statement? “It’s a mistake,” he says. “Now the significance of that mistake - that was the key rationale for war.” It was just two weeks later when the president decided to go to war. Lastly… we know now that Saddam Husain actually lied about having WMDs. Saddam Hussein told an FBI interviewer before he was hanged that he allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction because he was worried about appearing weak to Iran, according to declassified accounts of the interviews released yesterday.
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