Reply #54: There was one memo not memos. And why would Blair even want to share it?

[Maribelle]

Of course Blair never shared the Downing Street Memo with Bill before the war, because Blair wanted the memo simply dismissed.

I think when Clinton responded to Letterman's question about the Downing Street Memo he was only kidding. It was first published in May of 2005, and by July who on earth hadn't heard of it?


When Clinton left office in January of 2000 there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons, however, none ever of the mushroom cloud variety. When Bush and the rest of his corrupt administration claimed Saddam was attempting to purchase yellow-cake from Niger, presented pictures of the aluminum tubes, then repeated the 45-minutes-to-launch crap from Blair, this was all totally out of Clinton's range of intelligence information. So by adding in the nuclear options, the corrupt Bush Administration was attempting to nullify any qualifying comments from the prior administration. That clever Bush.

Of course, in time the members of the prior Clinton Administration began to get the truth regarding Saddam's nuclear capabilities, and that Bush had made it all up. Sadly, after Bush's illegal war had done its part in destroying Iraq. Today, I don't think the Clintons know any more or any less than the general public regarding the nuclear part.

Being kind to an ideological foe, Clinton noted that Wolfowitz had developed a whole theory about how a US invasion of Iraq would lead to a democratic Iraq and that the existence of this new Iraq would remake the region. Clinton indicated he never accepted this point of view, but it was, he said, a theory worth debating. Referring to the Bush administration's rationale for war, he remarked, "They should have just said that, without the pretext ." It was a polite way of saying the Bushies had been untruthful. After all, who is Clinton to call another president a liar?

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