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WMD - just a convenient excuse for war?
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Fri, 30 May 2003 08:56:24 GMT
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Well so says Paul Wolfowitz (Deputy Defence Secretary):
WMD just a convenient excuse for war, admits Wolfowitz
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=410730
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The Bush administration focused on alleged weapons of mass destruction as the
primary justification for toppling Saddam Hussein by force because it was
politically convenient, a top-level official at the Pentagon has acknowledged.
Mr Wolfowitz also discloses that there was one justification that was “almost
unnoticed but huge”. That was the prospect of the United States being able to
withdraw all of its forces from Saudi Arabia once the threat of Saddam had been
removed. Since the taking of Baghdad, Washington has said that it is taking its
troops out of the kingdom. “Just lifting that burden from the Saudis is itself
going to the door” towards making progress elsewhere in achieving Middle East
peace, Mr Wolfowitz said. The presence of the US military in Saudi Arabia has
been one of the main grievances of al-Qa’ida and other terrorist groups.
“For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction,
because it was the one reason everyone could agree on,” Mr Wolfowitz tells the
magazine.
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So it was not oil or WOMD Bush wanted, it was a new base. If people had not
died, this would be funny.
Scott A
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