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The only thing that the White House is really distorting here is the bit about the bluff plan backfiring. Anybody that has followed the PNAC side of the story knows the US was going to invade no matter what Saddam did. For Saddam, dragging the whole thing out as long as possible while not giving the US a justification was probably the only solution that had a chance of working.
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It is a pity that some of us always understood this, some are realising it to be the case & others will never grasp this reality.

Cheers

Doug

(Swap troublesome Saudi for Iraq - secure *contol* of the greatest wealth creating resource in the world. Potentially curb a rapidly developing China (already the world's (history's) greatest manufacturer & exporter), limit European Union's ability to grab control for itself).