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Originally posted by Confed999
Aziz makes it look like we got set up by France and Russia. I hope he's lying, if not, I hope it can be proven and used politically, probably best not to let the public know if it's true.
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I guess it depends if France and Russia were tipped off by Saddam as to Iraq's WMD capabilities. If they were then yes, they duped everyone into fighting the war anyway, rather than coming clean that Iraq had none. If they weren't then it reads like they were trying to avoid the war by convincing Saddam to resign. Whether this would have prevented the war is a different matter (althought the Hussein were given 48 hours to leave Iraq just before the war).
It sounds to me like WMD where the Emporers news clothes. It is also likely that as with many despots, it is impossible to dissuade them from the fact that they are fallible, contrary to their propaganda.