Wolfowitz: "For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction"

[sabra]

A little blast from the past...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article2112671.ece

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Mr Wolfowitz later said Saddam's alleged possession of WMD was just one of many reasons for invading. "For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on," he said.

[BOSSHOG]

1. For justice reasons I'll settle on you all hanging

[keopeli]

2. everyone agreed on WMD because you lied and they fell for it.

What he's saying is there wasn't consensus to go to war with Iraq except on the fabricated issue of WMDs. These "other reasons" were obviously not good enough to merit a "pre-emptive war".

[Seattleman]

5. Exactly right!

The threat of WMD's aka "Mushroom Cloud" was the ONLY reason that they could use to get the American people to agree to the invasion. They knew this and the Neo-Conartists and their co-cospirators lied through their teeth to get their way.

[originalpckelly]

10. You're telling me.

Rightfully so, no one thought Iraq was a threat, and if more people hadn't been afraid of terrorism in the wake of 9/11, they would've seen through the bullshit coming out of Bushes mouth. I mean, really, this pissy pants dictator who hid in a whole, made people get naked when they came to see him, all because he was afraid of dying, was going to bomb us, by giving people who hated him a nuke?

Oh and that's if you believed they had nukes.

Problem is that most Americans aren't nuclear weapons experts and they get scared when they hear the President say they might be nuked.

[oblivious]

3. It WASN'T about the OIL so stop thinking that. We didn't even know Iraq had oil.

Honest. Really. Cross my heart. Just a complete coincidence.

[WhiteTara]

4. and never bring out new product in August

were the words of another of the criminals...I believe it was Andy Card, or Josh Bolton.

[Capn Amerika]

6. Unelected officials like Wolfowitz and Bolton.

Tell me again how people like this wield so much power for over 30 years. Unreal.

[illinoisprogressive]

7. How about for general reasons we settled on throwing him in gitmo

sound good. the architect of this mass murder in Iraq was the brainchild of wolfie and so, we should reward him properly. Send him on a permanent vacation to Hotel Gitmo

[Imagevision]

8. Wolfowitz tells Vanity Fair: - upcoming investigations will have this high upon their priority list

Starting in mid-January. All we need is the truth to be known, the rest will take care of Bush & Cheney and the rest of the bunch.

[pretzel4gore]

9. and saddam tried to surrender

repeatedly (remember the perle story) but bush refused to sccept surrender..the cia/m16 trppped saddam inside iraq away from media until the invasion...650 thousand iraqis died in a premediated mass murder. wow
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9864433/