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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Ish who wrote (581507)6/9/2004 5:28:21 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Yep, but that's about the same as saying "I did not have sexual relations with that woman".

It might be sorta accurate, in a lawyer-like way... but the fact remains that they were not WHERE the Pentagon said they were, nor in the numbers they claimed.

(In fact, practically in No numbers... the area of barren desert the Pentagon referred to did not have troops deployed to it... certainly not "250,000 troops and 1500 tanks"! :)

It was disinformation, intended to secure Saudi cooperation (which it did), and Western cooperation (immediate threats to the oil, don't 'cha know), which it did.

Only, it was rather juvenile to make up such a BIG whopper... and then forget that Soviet and French satellite imagery was commercially available!

In any war, truth is the first victim. --- Ain't it always the case!
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