# So Bush lied to get into Iraq, ok but why?

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> [@ElvisL1ves](#):
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> The conclusion they were going to reach, and of course publicly announce, would have exposed the enormity of the WMD lie (with a side of mushroom cloud) that the administration had been peddling.

The problem with all these grand pronouncements that the UN was about to give Iraq a clean bill of health is that it is an allegation that is made up.

From Hans Blix’s book, “Disarming Iraq”

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> Personally, I tended to think that Iraq still concealed weapons of mass destruction, but I needed evidence. Perhaps there were not many such weapons in Iraq after all.

Ultimately, it’s clear from Blix’s statements that he had serious doubts about the intelligence, and Iraq was also unable to produce convincing evidence that there were no WMD. I believe Blix’s report would have said that there was neither the evidence to conclude that there were WMD, nor that there had been a disarmament. That likely would have meant that inspections would have had to continue until more evidence was gathered.

While I think that would have been a great idea, clearly Bush et al did not want to be locked into inspections with no completion in sight. Not because the UN was going to give Iraq a clean report card, but because inspections were limiting on their preconceived solution of taking Saddam out.

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