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Bush Couldn't Articulate His Way Out Of A Paper Bag
Mark Eby — (archived)

I agree 100% Bush did a poor job of articulating reasons for the most part. However contrary to Democratic revisionism he did try and articulate reasons other than wmd and he certainly gave Saddam plenty of time to live up to his UN obligations after he made it clear he was willing to go to war to enforce the sanctions. While the rational and relationship to GW1 may have not been clearly stated it was clearly implied by the comply or else stance. Bush did not go to war over the possibility of wmd alone. It was the possibility of WMD AND Saddam's refusal to abide by the conditions the UN put on him after GW1 to assure the world that he was no longer a WMD threat. Bush also had his team spend considerable time and effort to get 1441 passed. Saddam's own intransigence was the biggest misleading piece of evidence for a wmd program.

Regards,
Mark

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