Seems like the MinTruth troops have been at it again. In the aftermath of GulfWarI, Bush Senior and his National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft wrote an essay for Time magazine, explaining why an attempt to invade Iraq and topple Saddam was pretty much dismissed out of hand.

For some reason, the Time archives no longer carry this essay, and it has been erased from that edition's Table of Contents.

If you want to read the germane section, click the 'Read More' link below. Thanks to The Memory Hole for spotting it - they've got the full missing essay plus a scan of the original paper copy.

Today's Iraq Survey Group Report to the US Senate and Congress joint Intelligence Committee is expected to reveal that while Saddam didn't actually have any WMDs, he may have been pretending to have some, for the purposes of getting us to invade and depose him, kill his sons etc.

Well that's alright then, no harm done. As long as you don't mind unjustified wars, believing the misinformation of dictators and so on.

From the BBC report:

Committee chairman Pat Roberts, a Republican, said he was increasingly uncertain about Iraq's alleged possession of WMDs.

At one point I'm sure they did. Where they are now and what point they are now, I just don't know.

Of course he used to have them - in the late 1980s. After the US and UK sold them to him.