www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/27/truth-uk-guilt-...
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Saddam had been found guilty of possessing WMD, and his sentence had been passed down by Washington and London void of any hard evidence that such weapons, or even related programmes, even existed. The sentence meted out – regime termination – mandated such a massive deployment of troops and material that all but the wilfully blind or intentionally ignorant had to know by the early autumn of 2002 that war with Iraq was inevitable. One simply does not initiate the movement of hundreds of thousands of troops, thousands of armoured vehicles and aircraft, and dozens of ships on a whim or to reinforce an idle threat.
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No Scott, Saddam had been found guilty of being in the way.
"Bush was able to disguise his blatant militarism behind the false sincerity of his ally Blair and his own secretary of state, Colin Powell. The president's task was made far easier given the role of useful idiot played by much of the mainstream media in the US and Britain,"
Right on.
One way or another, all of the past 8 years will surface. I hope the Brits have Ritter testify, he is a primary source of factual information. Eventually, he'll testify here too.