“I'm not sure based on the evidence we know now that we could have been absolutely convinced that there was no danger, absolutely no danger,” Wolfowitz, a chief promoter of the invasion who is now president of the World Bank, said at the National Press Club. “If somebody could have given you a Lloyd’s of London guarantee that weapons of mass destruction would not possibly be used, one would have contemplated much more support for internal Iraqi opposition and not having the United States take the job on the way we did.”Let's turn that around, Mr. Wolfowitz: could you have guaranteed WMD would be found in Iraq, WMD which would have been an actual threat to the United States? Israel wasn't even worried about it, and they are the closest ally we have in the region. So the threat had to be against the continental U.S., didn't it?
“It was a sense that the greatest danger in taking this man on would be that he would use them,” said Wolfowitz of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. “If you could have given us a guarantee that they wouldn't have been used, there would have been policy options available probably.”
And if you couldn't guarantee that, Mr. Wolfowitz, what do you have to say to Cindy Sheehan, and the grieving parents of every child who has been killed in Iraq, soldier or citizen, foreign born or Iraqi? You sent them to war on far less than the guarantee you would demand to avoid war?
How do you like your blueyed boy, Mr. Death?
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