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For my friends who believe that W.'s drive to eliminate Saddam Hussein is motivated in large part by issues with his father, a new twist: Bush Sr.'s doubts about a unilateral war. The article is misleading but still interesting.

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Everyone I could find other than the Pakistan Times thinks it's "fuzzier evidence". Couldn't find a transcript anywhere.

He said that the key question of how many weapons of mass destruction Iraq held “could be debated”. The case against Saddam was “less clear” than in 1991, when Mr Bush Sr led an international coalition to expel invading Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Objectives were “a little fuzzier today”, he added.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_11-3-2003_pg4_5

Speaking to an audience at Tufts University in the last week of February, George Bush the Elder remarked that the evidence in 2003 was “a little fuzzier” than it was in 1990, when Saddam had invaded and occupied Kuwait.

http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=23458

The former president later drew a distinction between the importance of multilateral action in the Gulf War and today, saying that coalition-building is harder now, when the evidence that Hussein has weapons of mass destruction is ''a little fuzzier'' than when Iraq invaded Kuwait.

http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/058/metro/At_Tufts_elder_Bush_defends_US_Iraq_policy+.shtml

He conceded that getting a coalition together is harder now, because the evidence about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction is “a little fuzzier” than was his evident invasion of Kuwait.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/abs_news_body.asp?section=Opinion&oid=17209