And so the web
spinning begins. Note this appears
today when the “itty bitty” tax cut package was signed by the President with
great fanfare. I wonder what the
shelf life of this will be? - KWC Iraqi Weapons Only One Reason for War-Wolfowitz Wolfowitz, seen as one
of the most hawkish figures in the Bush administration's policy on Iraq, said
President Saddam Hussein's alleged cache of chemical, biological and possibly
nuclear weapons was merely one of several reasons behind the decision to go to
war. "For bureaucratic reasons, we settled
on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason
everyone could agree on," Wolfowitz was quoted as saying in Vanity Fair magazine's
July issue. No chemical or
biological weapons have been found in Iraq despite repeated assertions by
President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair before the March 20
invasion that the threat posed by Saddam's vast stocks of banned weapons
warranted a war to eliminate them. The United Nations and
America's allies were not convinced by the argument that it was justification
for a war, which was launched amid protests in many world capitals.
Washington's ties were major allies France and Germany are still strained. Wolfowitz said another reason for the
invasion had been "almost unnoticed but huge" -- namely that the
ousting of Saddam would allow the United States to remove its troops from Saudi
Arabia, where their presence had long been a major al Qaeda grievance. "Just lifting
that burden from the Saudis is itself going to open the door" to a more
peaceful Middle East, Wolfowitz was quoted as saying. The magazine said he
made the remarks days before suicide bombings, attributed to al Qaeda, against
Western targets in Riyadh and Casablanca two weeks ago that killed 75 people. The United States
announced last month that it was ending military operations in Saudi Arabia,
where they have long generated Arab resentment because of their proximity to
Islam's holiest sites. Wolfowitz's remarks
were released a day after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, seeking to explain
why no weapons of mass destruction had been found, said Iraq may have destroyed
them before the U.S.-led invasion. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=2840293 |
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