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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (175875)10/9/2003 12:39:10 PM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (1) of 1571358
 
Ted,

That's what all the furor is about. IMO responsible leaders do NOT start a war under such flimsy circumstances.

What I wondered about was if you were suggesting that Bush etc KNEW there were no WMD in Iraq. It seems like you are using the current knowledge and projecting it to the past.

The evidence may have been flimsy, but the info on WMD started from a solid premise that Saddam had these weapons in the past (used them as well), he kicked the UN weapon inspectors out. And, Saddam did not go to the UN asking for lifting of the sanctions - the sanctions that were in place to limit Saddam's ambitions in the region (mainly in area of weaponry).

So, with this info known prior to the war, I think 9 out of 10 people would say that Iraq had such weapon. I don't know about your or Al's post, but I wouldn't be surprised if you agreed with this conventional wisdom from prior to the war.

Weather posession of these weapons is a good enough reason for war is a separate question, but let's not make Bush into some kind of manipulator for going along the conventional wisdom.

If anything, we need to look into the intelligence gathering, and how it can be revived. CIA has been neglected and undermined by Democrats for years, and in this new world where information is everything, the sub-par performance of CIA keeps coming back biting us in the ass.

Joe
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