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

To: American Spirit who wrote (414099)	6/11/2003 4:41:05 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769670

If there was a failure of intelligence @ CIA, then George Tenet IS at fault. What a dope...

To: American Spirit who wrote (414099)	6/11/2003 4:50:22 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

change what subject...you are the only girlie screeching and biting your nails around here....welll, you and sheephard.

To: American Spirit who wrote (414099)	6/11/2003 5:25:31 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

WMD -- Relic of a quagmire Debra Saunders June 11, 2003 First there was the "quagmire," as U.S. troops prepared to enter Baghdad. TV critics bemoaned the poor planning that, they said, had sabotaged the war strategy and could lead to bloody urban fighting and a prolonged conflict. Then there was the victory. Then there was the scandal of the stolen artifacts, as the director of Iraq's National Museum of Antiquities, Donny George, bemoaned the loss of as many as 170,000 relics, characterizing the looting of the museum as "the rape of civilization." Bush-haters jumped on the president for not doing enough to protect the artifacts. Monday, The Washington Post reported that George had downgraded the damage to 33 pieces missing from the main collection. Apparently, museum officials knew all along that interested parties had hidden the artifacts. "I was very angry at the time, so much anger," George explained his blame-America-first tirades in Monday's Post. I guess the commentators who were quick to repeat George's charges were angry, too -- at the war victory. Now the airwaves and news pages are saturated with stories about the fact that U.S. troops have failed to find conclusive evidence of an Iraqi program to build weapons of mass destruction. Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., charged the Bush administration with "deliberately misrepresenting" intelligence information on Saddam Hussein's WMDs. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., has called for an investigation to see if U.S. intelligence was shaded, manipulated or exaggerated. Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., at least has shown the sense to cushion her sound bites about Iraqi WMDs. Harman says it "could be the greatest intelligence hoax of all time" -- then adds the disclaimer that she believes WMDs eventually will be found. (Like the artifacts.) On Sunday, NBC's Tim Russert read a letter that Levin had written to President Clinton in 1998 asking Clinton to take "necessary actions" to respond to "the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs." So it's odd that Levin's a WMD agnostic now. If Levin wants an investigation, fine. There have been screw-ups. In his State of the Union speech, President Bush cited phony documents on Iraq's quest for enriched uranium. Secretary of State Colin Powell cited outdated information from the United Kingdom. It can't hurt to know how that happened. Maybe the embarrassment would prompt the Bushies to see the value in hiring skeptics to challenge the administration's orthodoxies. Besides, the more that partisans snipe at Bush, the more the electorate will rally behind him. The voters have too strong a streak of common sense to believe that Hussein had WMDs in 1998, then got rid of the weapons on the quiet just so America could invade Iraq and oust him from power. "I think the nation's credibility is on the line," Levin told NBC, as he added that Bush' credibility is on the line, too. What about the naysayers' credibility? They were wrong on the quagmire. They were wrong on the artifacts. They'll be proven wrong on WMDs. Worst of all, they shouldn't appear triumphant in the military's failure to find these weapons thus far. They should be afraid. townhall.com

To: American Spirit who wrote (414099)	6/12/2003 6:13:20 AM
From: JDN	Respond to of 769670

Let me explain to you how ridiculous the Selected Democrats (not all of them are THAT dumb) look to the electorate on this matter. 1. For well over a DECADE our intelligence during BOTH administrations has warned the Administration on Saddam. 2. The British, German, French, Italian, Spanish and probably other intelligences have also warned of Saddam and his program for WMD. For people to THINK that ALL these people over ALL THESE YEARS in several different administrations ALL are in cahoots to fool the American People is PREPOSTOROUS and that is just how you and your ilk look to the rest of us. jdn