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Quotes, Misquotes and Statistics

Authored by Michael Pate on May 30th, 2003 at 7:41 PM

The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason. - Paul Wolfowitz

For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on. - Sam Tannenhaus

According to a May 1 Gallup poll for CNN and USA Today, 79 percent of Americans said the war with Iraq was justified even without conclusive evidence of the illegal weapons, while 19 percent said discoveries of the weapons were needed to justify the war. An April Washington Post-ABC News poll found that 72 percent supported the war even without a finding of chemical or biological weapons. Similarly, a CBS News poll found that 60 percent said the war was worth the blood and other costs even if weapons are never found. - Dana Milbank and Jim VandeHei

Links in this entry:

Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz Interview with Sam Tannenhaus, Vanity Fair
Iraq weapons issue remains a cloud over Bush efforts to patch up relations with Europe
No Political Fallout for Bush on Weapons

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