At the Republic debate on June 5th Romney stated the following:
If you’re saying let’s turn back the clock, and Saddam Hussein had opened up his country to IAEA inspectors, and they’d come in and they’d found that there were no weapons of mass destruction, had Saddam Hussein, therefore, not violated United Nations resolutions, we wouldn’t be in the conflict we’re in. But he didn’t do those things, and we knew what we knew at the point we made the decision to get in.
In this response, Mitt seems to indicate that Saddam refused to let the inspectors in. Of course, that’s not true. Inspectors were allowed in before the war. It was actually the US that told them that they should get out or risk being “shocked and awed” to death. The inspectors were unable to find any evidence of a nuke program.
Now Mitt has started to spin his answer, saying that Saddam wasn’t happy that the inspectors were there.
Look, I know how important it seems to gloss over the gaffes made by this administration. If the American public really understood the depth to which this administration was willing to stoop in order to get their war, no Republic candidate would ever be elected again. But really, Mitt, old buddy, please don’t try to lie your way out of someone else’s lie. Make a break with this loser President and be your own man.