Spain's Aznar admits there were no WMDs in Iraq-- seeds forgiveness

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http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=19478

First Published 2007-02-08, Last Updated 2007-02-08 14:03:52


Aznar: ‘There were none. I say it today’


Spain's Aznar admits there were no WMDs in Iraq


Socialist Party spokesman says former Spanish PM should ‘seek forgiveness’ from Spaniards for participating in war.


MADRID - Former prime minister Jose Maria Aznar has admitted there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, four years after he took Spain into the 2003 US-led invasion and helped topple Saddam Hussein.

"Everyone thought that there were weapons of mass destruction" at the time of the invasion, Aznar told a public gathering on Wednesday night in a Madrid suburb.

"There were none. I say it today," said Aznar who ordered Spanish troops to help in the invasion despite the opposition of a large majority of Spaniards.

"My problem is not to have known before, but at the same time no one knew," said Aznar, who along with British Prime Minister Tony Blair was a chief ally of US President George W. Bush over Iraq.

[Erika]

1. When will W and his bushbots ask our forgiveness?

Many of us here did not believe there were WMD's in Iraq and it was his excuse for taking Iraqi oil.

[Cha]

2. I knew and a couple of my

buddies..but then we're smarter than heads of state..especially ol toady blur.

[PSPS]

3. This is bullshit

"There were none. I say it today," said Aznar who ordered Spanish troops to help in the invasion despite the opposition of a large majority of Spaniards... "My problem is not to have known before, but at the same time no one knew," said Aznar,

It doesn't wash, Jose.

The fact is that "a large majority" of everyone, including people in the US, opposed this illegal invasion because they knew long before 2003 that bush was a sociopath and a liar. To say "no one knew" is just another lie. Everyone knew. You knew it too, but now you've found that the horse you hitched your wagon to has taken you over the cliff. You gambled with the lives of your countrymen for no reason other than your political fortunes, thinking bush would somehow protect you.

This is the same shit Hillary is trying to pull -- "oh, if only I had known!" Bullshit.

There are only two possibilities:

1. You knew it was just another bush lie, and you're directly responsible for the murder of your countrymen; or,

2. You have such compromised thinking skills that you couldn't see bush for what he so obviously has portrayed himself to be since before his being installed into the office he stole -- a sociopathic killer.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. The clown didn't SEE the rush to invade in order to beat Blix to the punch?

I have no respect for an asshole like that. He's attempting to rewrite history.