When I wrote "What are you thinking? I can't imagine. Do YOU know," it was in a specific context involving your own words and question. You've completely ignored that context with your latest post, as though you hadn't written the words I questioned, and too, as though I hadn't questioned them.
So incredibly like others of this thread you are. You may as well have written "no comment." I feel this phenomenon is absolutely goofy, and is as deceitful coming from you as it is in the cases of American Spirit and Orcastraiter. The odds that the three of you could actually be separate individuals seems long at times, given the incredible similarity you all have by virtue of sharing rare low scores in the lack of humility column.
I read you and truly, it is as if I hadn't written a thing. It is as if you hadn't even read the line from me which you quoted.
If you don't dispute that Russia provided us intelligence, and don't seem to dispute the particular information I provided per the lips of Putin, then you accept that Russia itself provided us with information obtained AFTER 911 which showed our leaders that Iraq was in fact planning to attack America. While sadly not highly publicized & discussed, this is, in the context of your typical critique of the war, bombshell information.
There is no sign that you've assimilated and thought through that fact. Instead, there is every sign that you've simply dismissed it in favor of holding fast to your current beliefs and, ostensibly, for your want of more detail which, I say, understandably, may not soon be forthcoming. Yet Putin has said it as I've represented it here, and one implication is that this intelligence provided by Russia plainly would help hugely in convincing anyone to go to war with an uncooperative Iraq.
There is no sign from you that Putin's plain point, i.e. that America was informed that Iraq was indeed planning to attack America, should in the slightest way justify our decision to move on Iraq. How weird.
I believe that if you knew this information from Russia and knew Bush had not acted upon it, it would become part and parcel of your argument to remove Bush (for his failure to do much beyond Afghanistan). I believe you are purely partisan therefore. If I knew this information and found that algore OR Bush had not acted upon it, I would say the same.
When it comes to the argument you just now did present, it is the same old argument you have been more than willing to delineate over and over again. It's silly of you to claim to be apologizing for not having stated your position in earlier responses (you have). You should be apologizing a thousand times over for ignoring points made in favor of restating your own thoughts instead.
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