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."
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.
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Er, Chris, are we talking about what populations believed, or what governments believed? Many governments believed that Saddam possessed or was developing WMD's.
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