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To: jlallen who wrote (150324)	11/1/2004 9:13:15 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Fact: inspectors were on the ground in Iraq, doing their job. Fact: Bush asked Annan (UN) to remove the inspectors because he wanted to go to war. Within a couple days, the bombs were dropping. Fact: There was absolutely no reason to conclude that inspection, continued verification, sanctions and diplomatic pressure would fail to continue to keep Saddam in his box. There is every reason to believe that having inspectors on the ground would continue to be effective. Crude Reality: UN / IAEA inspectors were right. Bush wrong, dead wrong. The CIA even confirms it. The reality is Bush went to war when he didn't have to, and over a thousand American's are dead; ten thousand wounded; and somewhere between five and fifteen thousand Iraqi civilians dead. Several hundred boys and girls from babies to 9 year olds were killed by "coalition forces" in the few months between the onset of war (just days after Bush via Annan orders inspectors out) to Bush's sanctimonious "Mission Accomplished" performance on the deck of an aircraft carrier.

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