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To: tejek who wrote (170199)	5/30/2003 6:45:24 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1582625

Conservatives do recognize that different crimes can be more or less severe. They also recognize that perjury is a relatively severe crime. Assuming that no WMD are found, what should be Bush's punishment? The political hit he will take. Lying should properly cause such a hit, but it isn't a crime unless its under oath. If the hit is enough for him to lose his reelection bid then that will be a more severe punishment then most politicians get for lying. No WMD found does not equal proof of a lie, but it would suggest that it wasn't unreasonable to believe that the WMD claims where lies. Also even if it was not a lie it would be an example of setting policy on poor or biased intelligence estimates which doesn't look good for the administration, so there should be some political hit either way. I don't disagree but before the war started, this was not the reason the war was deemed necessary. Therefore, I find its sudden surfacing as the reason to topple Saddam somewhat suspect. Suspect of what? The reason was mentioned, even if it was not given as much weight as WMD. Tim

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