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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: TimF who wrote (52770)11/2/2006 9:46:37 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (4) of 90947
 
>>But the WMDs, and the threat they supposedly represented to the U.S. were the major reason he and all his henchmen presented to the American people for supporting the invasion.

Alleged current large stockpiles of WMD was only one of the major reasons.<<

Tim -

The idea that Saddam's regime was a threat to our national security because of the WMDs was the number one most important reason given for that invasion, and no amount of denying it will change that.

Let's play "which Administration official said that in 2002?"

"Saddam could give a nuclear weapon to Osama Bin Laden"
"We can't let the smoking gun be a mushroom cloud."
"Saddam Hussein has been given the opportunity to disarm and he has not disarmed."

Woops. The game is a trick, because most of these sentences, with only minor variations, were uttered by multiple members of the Administration, from the President on down. They were part of the "Really Scary Soundbite of the Week" series, uttered dutifully by Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell, Rice, and Wolfowitz on the weekend political shows.

We were all there. We heard and read what they said. We saw Colin Powell's presentation to the U.N., which barely mentioned anything other than the WMDs.

Rumsfeld even said, "We know he has them. We know where they are."

If Bush had just said "He's a bad guy who tortures his own people, and he gives money to the families of Palestinian martyrs", do you honestly think we would even have had a vote in Congress about authorizing the use of force? No way.

- Allen
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