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TARIQ AZIZ, former Iraqi Foreign Minister, on Saddam's miscalculation that the Bush Administration would never risk a ground war to depose...
Even as Kerry repeated his lines that Bush had misjudged, if not misrepresented, the threat that Saddam posed, a more damaging case was being made by members of the Administration itself. First, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld declared that he had seen no compelling evidence of a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. Then the Washington Post reported that former Iraqi administrator Paul Bremer said the U.S. had not sent enough troops during the early days of the occupation to prevent the rampant looting that took place then as well as the sense of lawlessness that now rules portions...
...Bush campaign claimed vindication by focusing on Saddam's intent. The report showed how Saddam was "gaming" the U.N., Bush said, by using the oil-for-food program to undermine sanctions. Far from being containable, as Kerry suggested, the report concluded that "Iraq was within striking distance of a de facto end to the sanctions regime," which would have allowed Saddam to break loose and rearm. But the report also noted that Saddam "had no formal written strategy or plan for the revival of WMD after sanctions." As former inspector David Kay noted on the Today show, Saddam...
...Saddam A new report shows how the Iraqi dictator kept bluffing about WMDs when the truth might have saved his regime...
...YEARS, SADDAM HUSSEIN SHOWED himself to be a master practitioner of the big bluff. Everyone outside Iraq and just about everyone inside believed that he harbored a secret stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. So imagine the shock his generals received in late 2002 when U.S. forces were massing on the country's borders for an imminent invasion, and Saddam suddenly informed them that Iraq had no biological or chemical or nuclear weapons at all. Longtime aide Tariq Aziz told U.S. interrogators that military morale plummeted the moment senior officers learned Iraq would have to fight the U.S. without those...