Help me out with something. In his speech tonight, Bush again admitted that Iraq turned out not to have any WMD. But then something happened with his next breath.
Immediately after that admission, he said it was Saddam Hussein’s decision to go to war, by refusing our ultimatum.
Pardon, but wasn’t the point of said ultimatum for Saddam… to disarm his WMD?
It seems pretty simple (you’d think “simple” would be something our dear President would be able to understand): Our ultimatum required Saddam to do something that reality itself prevented him from doing.
So, because Saddam refused to disarm WMD that he did not actually have, it was Saddam’s decision to go to war?
Was he supposed to hurry up and create some WMD, just so he could disarm them and claim he’d complied with the ultimatum?
Actually, I think Paul Allen called Bush and told him he’d have to attack.
There was an ultimatum to Saddam and sons to leave the country just before the war began. That’s probably what he’s referring to.