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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings
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To: Original Mad Dog who started this subject1/20/2004 4:22:20 AM
From: zonder  Read Replies (2) of 14610
 
Letter to editor: from International Herald Tribune

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The editorial "How was the U.S. so misled?" (Jan. 12) makes it sound as if the whole issue of invading Iraq was an honest mistake, when in fact most of the world had been saying it was a calculated campaign by the Bush administration well before the invasion started.
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Using words like "misled," "exaggerated" and "overestimation" is itself misleading. The truth is that this was a crime, not only against Iraqis but also against Americans, and the perpetrators should be severely punished. "Nonpartisan investigations" seeking the reasons for the intelligence community's "inaccurate information" are a charade.
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The pretext for all of this - that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction - was ultimately found to be baseless. Are we to believe that everyone in government was so naïve or stupid that they could be so easily misled by "inaccurate information" with all those cries for reason and caution being raised in the background?
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Is there any difference now between the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait? Both invaders tried to legitimize their actions under various pretexts, and both failed miserably to substantiate them. Yet some still wish to call the latter a crime and the former just a mistake.
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