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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: carranza2 who wrote (141076)7/20/2004 10:30:21 PM
From: GST  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
Bush <"Some ask how urgent this danger is to America and the world. The danger is already significant, and it only grows worse with time. If we know Saddam Hussein has dangerous weapons today -- and we do -- does it make any sense for the world to wait to confront him as he grows even stronger and develops even more dangerous weapons?">

But Saddam did not have those weapons and he was not developing even more dangerous weapons, and there was no threat now and it was not growing worse. If it turns out as has been recently reported that the new interim President is a murderous thug who summarily executes people whose hands are tied behind their backs by shooting them in the head with a pistol, and if it turns out that the mass graves hold fewer Iraqi civilians than we ourselves have killed, then even our lauded "humanitarian" reasons are hollow illusions.

You must ask yourself the following:

1) Would the American people have supported this war, and would Congress have given a green light to an invasion if the facts were known? If not, did the American people and Congress mistakenly support this war because they did not know the facts?

2) Would Americans and Congress support this war if it was being proposed today and if we knew the facts? If there would be no support for such a war, why was the war "the right thing to do"?

3) Were we wrong?
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