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

To: Logain Ablar who wrote (388101)	4/8/2003 4:47:24 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

I agree completely with your post. What I am trying to get at is that there seems to be some pervading views that WMDs are not necessary as a justification for this war. Some polls have indicated that pov recently for one thing. Polls are tough because no matter what you ask wrt war at this time period, the answer you are going to get is "yes I support the troops". We need an end to the war before a poll will reveal whether the motivation for going in was perceived as just. Right now, as I write this there has been no concrete evidence of WMDs. This is a huge problem for the credibility of the Bush administration and this war as far as the internationally community is concerned. It is not ok to dismiss a lack of WMDs as if their existance was unnecessary- that this war was somehow justified on humanitarian grounds. Yesterday I heard news that sounded like WMD discovery twice- the first was an incredible story I heard on NPR in the morning, that US troops had found a site with Serin (?) gas and warheads. That story seemed credible to me, for one thing NPR was reporting it not Fox. And it was clear these were weapons not chemicals which could be used for some other purpose. Anybody heard anything about that story? What happened? It seems to have disappeared. The second story was the chemicals found which tested positive for weapons but Centcom says there needs to be further testing. In that case there seems to have been some backpeddaling in that these chemicals could just be fertilizer. L