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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: TimF who wrote (53065)11/6/2006 10:07:51 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
>>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.

Because of concerns about WMD does not equal because of current large stockpiles of WMD. And even more latent WMD concerns were not the only reason, just the number one reason.<<

Tim -

Wow. And talk about spinning and obfuscating. The Administration made it quite clear that they believed there were huge stockpiles of WMDs in Iraq. Just look at the text of Bush's State of the Union address for 2003. It's not about the future weapons, Tim.

Powell's entire presentation to the UN was about the weapons that were supposed to be there. He didn't say, "They may build some dangerous stuff in the future, so we need to invade now." And if he had said something like that, he would have been laughed right out of the building.

Now you attempt to revise history by saying our self defense claim was based on the possibility that Saddam could produce WMDs at some point. That is simply ludicrous.

I believe that attacking another country because you think they MIGHT do you harm cannot be justified as self defense. Were the Japanese justified in attacking Pearl Harbor? They did think we meant them harm, you know. And we absolutely did have a lot of weapons.

- Allen
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