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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (465873)9/27/2003 1:00:47 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Things can't get better EVERYWHERE all at once.

Which is why the administration makes a big mistake by looking to pick fights. Iraq was bottled up.

<font color=navy><font size=2>At a February 2001 press conference, Powell told reporters that the sanctions program was put into place "for the purpose of keeping in check Saddam Hussein's ambitions toward developing weapons of mass destruction."

After explaining that the situation required continual monitoring, Powell said of the sanctions: "Frankly, they have worked. [Saddam has] not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors."

Powell's remarks, delivered Feb. 24, 2001, at a joint news conference in Cairo with the foreign minister of Egypt
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Things could get better if Rove didn't demand a crisis a month to distract the press from Cheney's secret documents and Rumsfeld's weapon failures, oh, and the deficit and economic slump.
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