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For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction (as justification for invading Iraq) because it was the one reason everyone could agree on.
Paul Wolfowitz
Vanity Fair interview
May 28, 2003
For me this is the great bombshell quote, not for what it says about the existence of WMDs but for what it says about the Bush administration. What it says is that there were influential members of the administration who did not think that the liberation of the Iraqi people was a good enough reason to invade Iraq.
They were so unconvinced by that argument in fact that a "compromise" on WMDs was needed to get them on board.
But who is "they"? Certainly not George the liberator or Donald the freedom fighter, liberty was foremost in their minds all the time. Um, I think it was the now departed Ari wot did it. He was obviously the bastard who didn't give a shit about the Iraqi people, but he's gone now so it's okay.
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