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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (485121)6/2/2009 11:59:16 AM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (2) of 1573689
 
I posed this question to someone else on the thread privately. I would like to open it to public debate without rancor.

Proposition. US got into iraq because intel was that saddam had wmd and was working on nukes. If that was in fact the case would:
1. Saddam would have been a threat because he was an unstable and dangerous enough character to either use or proliferate those weapons, even to terror groups he had little relationship to (as in tactical alliance against common enemy, used thru history)
2. Gore if had won the election and faced with the same intel, have done similar things. History of clinton admin tells us there was a strong belief that saddam posed a strategic threat with wmd and strong action might be taken if they got a shot at him.

Now i know he didnt have them. And i also believe that Blix would never have convinced anyone of this because most reasonable folks thought saddam was hiding something. Few here even the libs thought that he was faking it to improve prestige. No argument that this was an intel blunder on our part and the worlds part but still the questions above are interesting to me and wonder whether folks can be reasonable and removed bush and clinton hating from the table for a second to discuss rationally.
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