"Powell might not have pushed for war had he known there were no WMD"
From the Independent (London) article, "Powell might not have pushed for war had he known there were no WMD":
"I don't know," was the bald reply of the Secretary of State when asked whether he would have argued for war under these circumstances.
It was the belief that a stockpile of chemical and biological weapons made Saddam Hussein "a real and present" danger, General Powell said. "The absence of a stockpile changes the political calculus; it changes the answer you get."
"I don't know," was the bald reply of the Secretary of State when asked whether he would have argued for war under these circumstances.
It was the belief that a stockpile of chemical and biological weapons made Saddam Hussein "a real and present" danger, General Powell said. "The absence of a stockpile changes the political calculus; it changes the answer you get."
// 2/03/2004 
