well, that's one way to look at it
Apr. 20th, 2004 03:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerfrom the Post's excerpt of Woodward's latest
While that's true, lack of evidence does, in the end, mean lack of evidence. Sending a nation to war and hudreds, maybe thousands of American service members to their death (let alone ten or a hundred times that many Iraqis), you have to have somethign stronger than "We can't prove they don't have WMD."
Which seems to be all we had.
Wolfowitz, who had been convinced years ago of Iraq's complicity in anti-American terrorism, thought Libby presented a strong case. He subscribed to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's notion that lack of evidence did not mean something did not exist.
While that's true, lack of evidence does, in the end, mean lack of evidence. Sending a nation to war and hudreds, maybe thousands of American service members to their death (let alone ten or a hundred times that many Iraqis), you have to have somethign stronger than "We can't prove they don't have WMD."
Which seems to be all we had.
