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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (376932)	3/23/2003 4:49:42 PM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 769670

Lizzie, intelligence is like a lot of circumstantial evidence. For instance, we have tapes of Iraqis saying make sure move this and hide this before the inspectors arrive. We have proof that he had WMD after Gulf War I and he never proved that he destroyed them all. We have proof that Saddam has lied continuously to everyone about what he has. We know the double game he's played for the last 12 years. We know Ansar-e-Islam is connected to Al-Qaeda and operates freely in Iraq. We know several prominent Al-Qaeda members have traveled to Iraq to seek asylum and get medical care. We know Saddam is brutal to his people and has gassed them with mustard and VX agents. And the list goes on and on and on. At some point, a reasonable person starts to understand that although we don't have direct proof of the location of his WMD or his links to Al-Qaeda, the circumstantial evidence is so overwhelming, that we have to allow common sense to let us connect the dots. I'll tell you this much. If a convicted killer was approaching my family with a gun in his hand and he tells me that he is going to kill my family, I won't think twice before I blow him away if I have my own gun in hand. So the case holds here. We shouldn't think twice about terminating Saddam's existence.