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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (99687)	5/31/2003 11:56:57 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

All this from the stupidest president we've ever had.........amazing. M

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (99687)	6/1/2003 3:19:51 AM
From: frankw1900	Respond to of 281500

The real reasons, the exagerated reasons, the totally imaginary reasons. Everything they could think of. The shotgun approach. Which "imaginary reasons"? YOU say "exaggerated reasons", so which do you have in mind? Every time Bush made a speech about Iraq regime whether or not he mentioned WMDs, he said it was evil and should be changed - and it was evil - no exaggeration there. Then, they noticed, that of all their motley collection of real and imaginary reasons, the one that had the biggest response, the one that scared Americans the most, was WMDs. This was the only reason the damned time servers at the UN would talk about depite all the other UN resolutions against Iraq having nothing to do with WMDs. It was the only reason those in the US who discounted the significance of 9/11 would talk about. The US government said Iraq had WMDs and was trying to get more. Surely true from the point of view of someone watching Iraqi regime activities - what other conclusion can one come to with resistance of the regime to inspectors and the large amount of precursor chemicals and weapons it did have, and its continued provocation of sanctions - which could have been lifted years ago had Hussein cooperated? And, of course, they needed evidence. So they invented it You don't like their interpretation of it. When any group begins with the assumption that they are right, 100% right, the above process is often the result. They were 100% right about the nature of the Iraq regime and they were 100% right about it's objectives. In light of that their interpretation is not unreasonable and the story is far from ended yet. There was probably a not-small amount of self-deception, mixed in with the straight-forward lying. Somebody's making up something, that's for sure. And most of the people who supported the Administration's claims, in the press and abroad, were simply being loyal Team Players, trusting the U.S. President. The US's claims certainly fit Hussein's track record and believing the US in that light is not unreasonable and requires no membership in a team. We can add this, to the long list of things this Administration has done, to unilaterally destroy the coalitions and alliances needed to win the War On Terror Balls. The security forces of the US's allies are on side, with notable exceptions of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. They don't listen to their political bosses and cooperate with the US because they know who their enemy is and it's not the US.