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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: Dan B. who wrote (74348)	3/10/2006 11:29:00 AM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (2) of 81568

We've been mislead. Powell also said that Saddam had mobile weapons labs and WMD manufacturing plants. He even had aerial photos of the crimes. But as we all know these assertions turned out to be completely false. As for Al Qaeda freely operating in Baghdad for 8 months, it's possible. Al Qaeda was freely operating in San Diego, Boston and Florida too. Tenet asserts that training was given in the past to a few al Qaeda members. But he doesn't say when in the past, or he doesn't say how the training came about. What he does say is that training was limited to a few occasions. We know very little about that training. Training was also being given to Al Qaeda associates in Phoenix and Florida in piloting aircraft. We don't know if this training was sanctioned by the governments. Certainly Bush didn't know about the training taking place in the US, even though the FBI wrote memos to that effect. What I believe is that there was enough evidence available for us to be keeping a sharp eye on Saddam. To demand weapons inspectors be allowed into the country. To demand that Iraq needed make democratic changes. Was there enough evidence for an invasion and an occupation? To me the case was not made for such actions. In fact we were told many lies about the need for this war. I think it's clear that Iraq was not part of some Al Qaeda network which needed to be taken out. Iraq was on Bush's radar for other reasons...and well before 9-11. Most of this information, as we have seen time and time again, is really unvetted hearsay. There is no smoking gun. And there are many players with many agendas floating information, and misinformation as they see fit. What it points out is how limited our intelligence in the middle east really is. Acting on limited intelligence is very unwise as we can all see in hindsight. To show how limited the intelligence is, you even throw in a painting of a mural as evidence of involvement. I saw similar artwork in other countries. It is not evidence of Al Qaeda collaboration. It's art. 9-11 evoked many emotions, and it showed up in some artwork. When artwork becomes evidence justifying an attack, then it's time to take off the brown shirts and put them away. Orca

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