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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (2613)	1/20/2003 11:04:47 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

>>>But, as with the June C.I.A. report, the Administration kept quiet about the Pyongyang admission. It did not inform the public until October 16th, five days after Congress voted to authorize military force against Iraq. Even then, according to Administration sources quoted in the Washington Post, the Administration went public only after learning that the North Korean admission?with obvious implications for the debate on Iraq?was being leaked to the press. On the CBS program "Face the Nation" on October 20th, Condoleezza Rice denied that news of the Kelly meeting had been deliberately withheld until after the vote. President Bush, she said, simply hadn't been presented with options until October 15th. "What was surprising to us was not that there was a program," Rice said. "What was surprising to us was that the North Koreans admitted there was a program."<<< Had the above information been known to members of Congress, and perhaps the public, the public supposedly being the ultimate lobby force, the Congressional authorization vote for Iraq might not have been, and the pressure the US thus put on the UN might have been tempered some had Bush not had congressional approval. Yup, this (s)elected presidency we've got here isn't what I'd call inept. It's cruel, calculating and has little regard for freedom here or elsewhere. Worse, it's dangerous!!!