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I just took one of the first links, you can find the memo in many places, including Wikipedia.


You responded to a criticism of source usage with a much, much worse source. You also rattled off a bunch of assertions as if they were unquestionably true without providing citation. Whatever your intention, you didn't really address my criticism in a constructive way that was likely to bring anyone to your way of thinking that wasn't already there.

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The Rumsfeld memo was reported by MSNBC but after review, prompted by your criticism, I am not satisfied with the credibility of the document.

The Downing Street Memo was widely reported in major newspapers and contained among other things the passage "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

Blix: http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/18/opinion/iraq-war-hans-blix/

This is a nice summary of regime change http://publicintellectualsproject.mcmaster.ca/democracy/real...




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