re: #49 Talking Point Detective

I actually don’t think that he knew so. I don’t think that he would have taken the risk of justifying the invasion on the basis of WMD if he actually knew they didn’t exist. I don’t think he had that political courage.

I think that he was just willing to overthrow rational cost/benefit analysis on the basis of ideological justification. He basically stated exactly that in interviews. He stated that he didn’t worry about negative consequences because god told him his decision-making was correct, and he was supported in such views by those who were blinded by a driving vision of American hegemony.

Part of the problem maybe.

It didn’t take a rocket scientist to see it. Lil’ ole me read it in the links I gave you. David Kay, the head of weapons inspections at the time, said there was no way to verify what Sadaam had. He kept running them on wild goose chases. All of a sudden, by 2002-3, Kay was front and center going back on everything he previously stated.

Many years later, Kay confessed to lying about all of it in a Slate interview which I can’t seem to find now, but someone here at LGF pointed it out. I’ll keep looking.