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Originally Posted by Griff
Okay, we all agree that the bad stuff happening in Iraq was more than predictable. It was likely, almost inevitable.
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Really?
The powers that be didn't think so, but they sure as hell wanted the war, WMD or not.
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Bush predicted that it was "unlikely there would be internecine warfare between the different religious and ethnic groups." Blair agreed with that assessment.
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The memo also shows that the president and the prime minister acknowledged that no unconventional weapons had been found inside Iraq. Faced with the possibility of not finding any before the planned invasion, Bush talked about several ways to provoke a confrontation, including a proposal to paint a U.S. surveillance plane in the colors of the United Nations in hopes of drawing fire, or assassinating Hussein.
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