The Rationale Quest - Politics, Economics and Philosophy

...[Regarding] Sidney Blumenthal's report into information the president apparently got from Naji Sabri about Saddam's WMD programs[, t]he essential problem . . . is that Sabri was Saddam Hussein's foreign minister. Obviously, in retrospect we know that Sabri's claims that Iraq had no WMD were completely accurate. But given the context, the fact that Sabri said Iraq had no WMD had no real probative value. In particular, the headline "Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction" seems incredibly overblown. What Bush "knew" was that Saddam's foreign minister said Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction, which isn't at all the same thing.