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Wolfowitz cites WMD as the ''bureaucratic'' reason to justify invading IRAQ
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 21:14:07 -0400
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Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 20:50:49 -0400 From: tim finin <finin () cs umbc edu> Our bureaucrats hard at work... -- http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=2840293 Iraqi weapons only one reason for war-Wolfowitz By Reuters, 5/28/2003 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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