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

To: Just_Observing who wrote (4075)	1/27/2003 6:53:18 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

I hope everyone read the below exchange between Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, and a New York Times reporter, after Wolfowitz earlier had tried to prove the Bush Administration's position against Iraq. Please read slow and carefully and think with a mind toward the quality of intelligence, reason and fairness. >>>"Iraq's weapons of mass terror and the terror networks to which the Iraqi regime are linked are not two separate themes - not two separate threats. They are part of the same threat," Mr Wolfowitz said. In the question-and-answer session that followed, he was challenged by a reporter from the New York Times - hardly one of the country's most dovish newspapers - who asked: "Given that we're talking about matters of war and peace, does the administration plan to make a further report and provide intelligence information to ... buttress its claims that Iraq has resumed the production of weapons of mass destruction? And if not, is this because of targeting concerns, sources and methods, or do you simply not have reliable information that would stand up in a public forum?" Mr Wolfowitz replied: "I think the short answer ... is there is a lot of evidence; as the evidence accumulates, our ability to talk about it undoubtedly will grow. But we don't have a lot of time; time is running out."<<< guardian.co.uk. I think that ordinary Americans, you know, the ones watching all them sports and sitcoms, the ones who don't really pay lots of attention to politics, themselves, were they to tune into the Wolfowitz v. NYT reporter exchange, they'd think: "Man, that guy's dumb! Why didn't he answer the question!" Unfortunately, the arts of deception artists within the Bush Administration know full well that this ordinary American, who just complained in the paragraph above, will go back to watching sitcoms and sports. And this is one reason why public demonstrations for peace are so important: They get people thinking, they get people talking--and this forces action.