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Politics : Attack Iraq? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Doren who wrote (5060)	3/23/2003 8:39:50 PM
From: Victor Lazlo	Respond to of 8683

Don is a very paranoid conspiracy theorist.

To: Doren who wrote (5060)	3/23/2003 11:45:42 PM
From: Don Earl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8683

<<<Colin Powell looked so forlorn trying to convince the world with those amateur pictures. Sad. I just don't like being lied to.>>> Maybe you've seen something I haven't, but I don't follow your reasoning that Powell is a dove. He was one of the key movers and shakers in the first Iraq war, along with Rumsfeld and Cheney, and his every move in the past 4 months have been pure hawk at every turn. My impression was that after pounding the table for weeks about "irrefutable proof", the obvious embarrassment he displayed was about what one would expect of someone caught with their hand in the cookie jar. Sub paragraph "e" under "Immediate Steps" in the Baker Report published around April 2001 is interesting. It basically outlines recommendations to focus world attention on WMDs as an excuse to control Iraq's oil through "diplomatic and other means". I'm not sure at what point conspiracy theory becomes conspiracy fact, which is why I was half hoping someone with half a brain would take a shot at finding weak points in some of my observations. I suppose theological debates are more interesting. <g> Anyhow, if you haven't seen the Baker Report, there are some real eye openers considering it was released 6 months BEFORE 9/11. rice.edu