[IP] Wolfowitz cites WMD as the ''bureaucratic'' reason to justify invading IRAQ

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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> Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 20:50:49 -0400
> From: tim finin <finin@cs.umbc.edu>
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> Our bureaucrats hard at work...
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> http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=2840293
> Iraqi weapons only one reason for war-Wolfowitz
> By Reuters, 5/28/2003
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> LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The U.S. decision to stress the threat po




> sed
> by Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction above all others was
> taken for ''bureaucratic'' reasons to justify the war, U.S. Deputy
> Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was quoted as saying in remarks
> released Wednesday.
>
> Wolfowitz, seen as one of the most hawkish figures in the Bush
> administration's policy on Iraq, said President Saddam Hussein's
> alleged cache of chemical, biological and possibly nuclear weapons was
> merely one of several reasons behind the decision to go to war.
>
> ''For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass
> destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on,''
> Wolfowitz was quoted as saying in Vanity Fair magazine's July issue.
> ...


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