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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (24684)	6/6/2003 11:32:37 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

If you're not feeling pretty stupid by now, you should be. Well, if I'm "feeling stupid", then I'm in good company.. including the UNSCOM inspectors who confiscated that document in 1998 which stated that Iraq had lied about the number of chemical warheads it had expended during the Iran-Iraq war.. By the tune of 6,000 warheads that were, AND REMAIN, unaccounted for.. This was ACCORDING TO IRAQI RECORDS, not something the US or UNSCOM made up.. The Iraqis produced this information, which they obviously thought they had hidden or destroyed so it wouldn't fall into the hands of the UNSCOM inspectors. Shortly thereafter, Saddam stopped cooperating with UNSCOM. That led to the withdrawal of the inspectors and Clinton's "Desert Fox" air attack (that accomplished nothing). So TP, if you're so "smart".. Explain to us why the Iraqis deliberately produced a report that claimed they expended more weapons than they actually possessed?? (since you claim they don't even exist)... They, the Iraqis, believed they existed.. because they built them and were required to account for them to Saddam. But somehow, somewhere, they disappeared. POOF!! Into thin air... And now they are claiming they just destroyed them without properly accounting for them.. Makes a lot of sense that a absolutely paranoid totalitarian regime would care less about properly accounting for weapons that could be turned against them by rival factions... And of course, you're stupid enough to utterly believe it all... And now morons like yourself are suddenly claiming that these weapons didn't exist at all... Even though that argument DEFIES the evidence PRODUCED BY THE IRAQIS THEMSELVES!!!! Hawk

To: TigerPaw who wrote (24684)	6/7/2003 5:42:09 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

53 to 32---BUSH CLOBBERS CLINTON IN POLL New York Post ^ \| 6/07/03 \| FREDRIC U. DICKER June 7, 2003 -- ALBANY - President Bush would clobber former President Clinton if - by a change in the Constitution - the two could face off next year, a new poll yesterday showed. Republican Bush would defeat Democrat Clinton 53-32 percent, according to an Opinion Dynamics Corp. poll conducted on June 3 and 4 for Fox News. In the hypothetical Bush-Clinton matchup, 88 percent of Republicans backed Bush but only 62 percent of Democrats said they would vote for Clinton. Almost a quarter of Democrats - 24 percent - said they would cross party lines to vote for the Republican incumbent. But only 7 percent of Republicans said they would vote for Clinton. The new poll, which surveyed 900 registered voters, found three-quarters of Americans favor keeping the 22nd Amendment, which limits presidents to no more than two terms. Clinton suggested lifting the ban, but only 20 percent of Americans said they favored such a move. nypost.com