Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (99528)	5/30/2003 12:05:19 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Yes, his current threatening supply would only grow. Which is not the same as flaunting the likelihood of an imminent attack. And of course, once in battle, they would make sure that the troops had protective gear. Whatever the administration believed behind closed doors, their public statements were far more alarming than this sober one you've just posted. PBS showed a clip last evening of Bush saying Saddam had huge supplies of wmds and would use them on his neighbors and give them to terrorists. All of them, including Tony Blair, claimed the danger facing his neighbors and the US and Britian and "the civilized world" was so imminent that we could not wait through the summer for the inspections to work. There may be an argument the Bush folk could use to save face on this one, but the one you are offering and the one they seem to prefer at the moment, doesn't work. Too much footage around. The other one I like but won't work for them, is the variants of "we didn't really believe the wmds argument but were just forced into it by the UN." This Administration knew where some were, based on old intelligence. Depends on what you mean here, NC. The satellite fotos and intercepted phone messages which Powell used in his UN presentation were hardly "old" evidence. You might argue, as some have done, that the evidence came from Chalabi's defectors crew and in that sense it was old evidence. But that's precisely part of the problem. The political types in the Bush administration preferred, apparently, the Chalabi information because it fit their own preconceptions and chose to ignore the obvious agendas in which it was packaged. This is so elementary, I can hardly believe we are debating the matter...... Well, a put down. OK. This is the argument that it was moved. Certainly not one advanced until the Bush folk could not find it. We are in cya time now. If something doesn't pop soon, they will be throwing bodies overboard. Standard political strategy.