Re: Mark Danner on the British Smoking-Gun Memo
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"We (most everyone) believed that Sadaam had or was developing WMD and that he would not hesitate to transfer said weapons to terrorists."
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This claim is simply false. Outside the U.S., and beyond the reach of the propaganda machine, virtually no national population agreed that Saddam was a threat to anyone outside Iraq. A Gallup poll of some 38 countries, for example, couldn't find a single one where a majority supported a U.S. war against Iraq.
Your claim that Saddam "wouldn't hesitate" to give WMD's to terrorists after at least two decades of undisputed failure to do that very thing is something less than an assertion of fact and something more than evidence of delusional insanity. (Recall the Duelfer Report's conclusion that "no evidence" existed of any intent by Saddam to transfer WMD to terrorists).
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