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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Machaon who wrote (505089)	12/6/2003 6:34:19 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (4) of 769667

Saddam was not an imminent threat to the US. He would be more accurately decribed as an ongoing pest and a possible menace. There is no credible evidence to support your theory. If he had tons of WMD, where are they? And where are the delivery systems to use them? They just don't exist. Maybe they used to but they were either destroyed or hidden so deeply that they're rotting away in a bunker somewhere. Since Anthrax only has a shelf life of two years that is one we don't have to worry about. Mustard gas and sarin are not such huge threats. He didn't have nukes and didn't have VX. There was a massive deception campaign going on prior to the war in the White House in order to justify unilateral invasion. Bushies tried to blend Saddam with 9-11 and even the Antrax attacks. They tried to make the Iran-Iraq war massacres seem like yesterday. They sold the world on a hyped up dishonest view of reality. They also kicked out UN inspectors who were doing a damn good job. Now we know the truth, that it was mostly hype and disinformation. We know our leaders lied. The only ones believing Bushies on Iraq are the ones who are so fiercely loyal to the president they'd never dare to question him. The whole theory of Iraq's danger to the US relies on worst case scenario paranoid speculation. Is it possible Saddam could have been a threat? Sure, but there are many such potential threats in the world. Who knows which would ever materialize? Now we are spending north of a half trillion dollars to remove Saddam. That alone is three times the cost of 9-11. We will also end up losing more than a thousand men with many more thousands wounded. Don't believe in neocon propaganda, believe in proven no nonsense reality. This war was not necessary and is hugely costly. If there are any upsides to it, they have not been seen yet and may be seen for a long-long time. We all hope there is a positive side to it because we are all paying for it. As of right now though, Iraq is MORE of a threat to us than it was before. Bush's deceptions vis a vis the war alone are reason to deny him re-election. He has proven he cannot be trusted, has too many conflicts of interests vis a vis big oil and is a poor and imprudent manager of foreign and military affairs.

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