Neocon, sometimes it's good to look back and learn so we don't make the same mistakes over and over. In view of the "final" reports on the danger that Saddam posed to the U.S. and the intelligence assements addressing his lack of connection to 9/11, I wonder how you feel about your earlier post that:
"Perhaps you didn't notice, we were attacked in New York and Washington a couple of years ago. Perhaps you also didn't notice, but David Kay ascertained that the Iraqis were working on increasing the range of their ballistic missiles. True, they would not yet have reached the United States, unless we presumed they were on a naval platform, but they would have reached American troops in Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf, and perhaps parts of NATO.........
I like my earlier post to Cobalt Blue. I think it's a lot more perceptive. I.e.:
To: CobaltBlue who wrote (130223) 4/28/2004 2:13:14 AM
From: cnyndwllr Read Replies (2) of 147336
Let me suggest another "what's hard to believe;" it's hard to believe that Iraq had ANY stockpiles of wmds.
I get tired of the Bush people saying how they could hide them in a cellar, a cave, a turkey farm, etc. Of course they could, but Kay's statements were very clear and he obviously wasn't basing them on the premise that he'd painstakingly searched the entire Iraqi Nation.
The thing the "we're not sure" crowd doesn't seem to see, or doesn't want to see, is that while the wmds might be easy to hide, the PEOPLE that were in positions to create them, store them and hide them are in public view. They've been "interrogated," their stories have been compared, their paperwork has been examined and they've clearly been offered huge rewards for information that this Administration could use to justify the war and assure its reelection.
The result; nada, nothing, zip. They've all told the same story; no wmds stockpiles, big or little. That dog just won't hunt and the U.S. government has known that for a long time.
It's time to stop accepting simplistic excuses like "it's easy to hide wmds." Either that or it's time to admit that some of us don't like to think for ourselves. |
