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To: LindyBill who wrote (24091)1/13/2004 6:55:32 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 793688
 
It's like raiding a criminal's house for Drugs, and finding that he has moved them just prior to your raid.

Bill, that's not even remotely apt.

<<DIANE SAWYER: (You) stated as a hard fact, that there were weapons of mass destruction as opposed to the possibility that he could move to acquire those weapons still —>>

The difference is not between weapons being stashed in the house or in the neighbor's back yard. The difference is between HAVING something that could kill us all right now or on an incoming UPS truck and having a program in place to get something that could kill us all. That's a huge difference. The former is a justification for war and the latter probably isn't.

You are so "anti-war" that you refuse to see it.

I will not characterize your refusal to see it. That could be construed as an insult. <g>

Re WMD, I think a big part of the problem during the period leading up to the war was the definition of WMD. At some point it changed, at least as the term was used popularly. WMD used to mean nukes. It meant something bigger than the biggest non-nuclear bombs we had, something that could level whole towns or kill thousands and thousands of people. It did not mean killing a dozen people in a subway with saran gas or debilitating troops with mustard gas.

It took me a while to figure out that they were now lumping all sorts of things that were no more deadly that a guy on a roof with a machine gun under the label, WMD. I'd be interested in seeing a poll on what people, even now, think that WMD means. I think folks can be forgiven for assuming that when the Prez talked about WMD he meant, at a minimum, some suitcase nukes.
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