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Originally Posted by PaulS
Jim - if I remember correctly Sadam was starting to give the inspectors a lot more cooperation near the end once it was obvious we were heading down the road to invasion. I don't think a little more time would have hurt anything.
I don't know if it was a honest mistake or deception but the admin. did have blinders on.
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"if I remember correctly Sadam was starting to give the inspectors a lot more cooperation near the end "
Maybe. But he was still defiant, right up to the end. He was not giving the inspectors everything they asked for. And that was what he was required to do, under his surrender terms from the first Gulf War.
"admin. did have blinders on"
I think the administration (and a LOT of Democrats in the Senate) concluded he had WMDs. But Bush was not hell-bent on invasion, he gave Saddam too many chances to avoid it.
It wasn't deception, someone would have blown the whistle.