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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (48630)	10/1/2002 6:43:19 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

A couple of things: Bush said..." a report came out of the Atomic -- the IAEA -- that they were six months away from developing a weapon. I don't know what more evidence we need." that was refuted...."We need more, because that evidence (Bush's assertion)doesn't exist, as an IAEA spokesman told Curl." So the Bush admin says this week: Iraq's biological and chemical weapons stockpiles and its attempt to attain a nuclear capability are an immediate threat to U.S. security interests, the Bush administration is urging both Congress and the U.N. Security Council to approve resolutions authorizing the use of military force if Iraq does not abide by past demands to disarm. Over and over again, repeatedly, ad nauseum, oops ~redundancy...folks here have said Saddam has nuclear while the President just as adamantly says he has to the Potential to go nuclear.

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (48630)	10/1/2002 7:06:20 PM
From: Rascal	Respond to of 281500

<<"My question is, what's changed? Why would Congress want to weaken a resolution?" Bush said. Saddam, he said, is "more of a threat four years later.">> What's changed? Your Press Secretary supported putting as bullet in Saddam's head in a PUBLIC OFFICIAL briefing. Another reason to doubt the skill set and motives of the current Administration. This is a disaster. Handled very, very poorly.

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (48630)	10/1/2002 9:17:04 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The president's spokesman, addressing questions about the cost of a war in Iraq, said Saddam Hussein's exile or assassination-- "the cost of one bullet if the Iraqi people take it on themselves"-- would be both preferable and cheaper. "Regime change is welcome in whatever form it takes," White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said. Foot and mouth disease of a very high order. He'll be talking his way out of these comments for the rest of his public life.