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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: PROLIFE who wrote (430586)7/21/2003 11:22:39 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
The war in Iraq was fought for several very specific reasons.

Let's make this simple......there were only two reasons of merit.......WMD and links to al Qaeda. Those are the two that Bush pushed and convinced the Amer. public to go to war without the UN.

Indeed, it is rare in American history that an administration has been so careful to spell out the causes for going to war. First, said the Bush administration, only a war fought now will prevent a sworn enemy from threatening us later with weapons of mass destruction. Hussein's use of chemical and biological weapons against his neighbors as well as his own people combined with his efforts to develop a nuclear device conjured up the very real possibility of an attack on the United States that would have made September 11 look like child's play. In the next place, argued the administration, regime change in Iraq was necessary to disrupt the possibility of an emerging Iraq-al-Qaeda alliance — an alliance that would put the vast resources of an oil-producing rogue state at the disposal of fanatical terrorists who had already demonstrated their intent and ability to target American cities.

All the rest of that paragraph and the rest of the article for that matter is conservative temporizing in order to confuse the issue and blur the facts.

Many of us did not want to go to war but got pushed into it by an over zealous president. So then, its not surprising that we are p*ssed when we find out that Mr. Bush lied.....excuse me, mislead us and that it really was about the oil.

So save the GOP BS for your kids. I don't think even you believe it. TIA.
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