Need help putting Freepers back in their caves re:Saddam...

[tekriter]

Ladies and gentlemen, I need help finding a news story from a while back.

I remember reading, and I thought I had saved, quotes from either Powell or Rummy before the war started that said that the weapons were the most important thing in Iraq, and that even if Saddam were to remain in power that would be OK because we got rid of the WMDs.


I'm still digging, but I can't find it. Anybody else remember this?


Many thanks in advance!

[dedhed]

1. Check this out...

Saddam can stay if he disarms, Powell says

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/21/1034561443683.html

I love Google...

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[dedhed]

2. Here's another...

McIntyre: Would that be acceptable to the United States, if Saddam Hussein was able to leave with perhaps a large sum of money, and live comfortably in some other country?

Rumsfeld: The goal of -- that is a question for the president and not for me. The goal in my view is that Saddam Hussein not be a threat, and not have the relationships they do with terrorist states, and not threaten their neighbors, and not have weapons of mass destruction programs. If Saddam Hussein decided to take a handful of his family and senior leaders and go away and no longer would Iraq have those weapons, and no longer would they threaten their neighbor, I think that would be -- I personally think that would be a good thing for the world. Whether it's reasonable or not, I have no idea.

http://www.iraqwatch.org/government/US/Pentagon/dod-rumsfeld-cnn-092102.htm

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[tekriter]

3. Thanks, Dedhed...

that's everything I need!