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

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (415493)	6/16/2003 10:06:35 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

Saddam's regime was part of the world wide terror apparatus.... Salman Pak, payments to families of homicide bombers, Abu Abbas, and a new camp discovered just yesterday...... Iraq WAS a threat to the peace and security of the world and the US.....no longer....

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (415493)	6/16/2003 10:53:31 PM
From: jim-thompson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

More on Loppy, the guy with the lop sided head>> Kerry became even more of a press celebrity during a highly publicized "anti-war" protest when he threw medals the press reported were his over a barricade and onto the steps of the Capitol. Kerry never mentioned that the medals he so gloriously tossed were not his own. The 1988 issue of Current Biography Yearbook explained: " . . . the ones he had discarded were not his own but had belonged to another veteran who asked him to make the gesture for him. When a 'Washington Post' reporter asked Kerry about the incident, he said: 'They're my medals. I'll do what I want with them. And there shouldn't be any expectations about them.'" Kerry's medals have reappeared, today hanging in his Senate office, now that it is "politically correct" for a U.S. Senator to be portrayed as a Vietnam War hero. Alas, so much for integrity.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (415493)	6/17/2003 12:24:16 AM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 769669

Australian Expert to Expose Iraqi Weapons 'Exaggeration' The Associated Press Monday 16 June 2003 A former Australian defence analyst who resigned in March claiming the government was exaggerating the Iraqi threat is to appear before British MPs investigating intelligence on Baghdad's weapons programmes. Andrew Wilkie is a former army officer who worked at Australia's Office of National Assessments, which provides intelligence evaluations for the government in Canberra. He quit in protest over the case Prime Minister John Howard made to the public for going to war in Iraq without a United Nations mandate. Mr Howard backed US and British claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and links to the al-Qaida terror network. He sent 2,000 Australian troops to the war that toppled the Iraqi regime. After resigning, Mr Wilkie argued that intelligence available to Australia suggested Iraq did not pose a serious threat to the United States and its allies. He also claimed the war would only fuel terrorist fervour for more attacks on the West. Wilkie told The Sydney Morning Herald he would expose the government's "exaggeration" of intelligence on weapons of mass destruction and "concoction" of links between former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and terrorists in his appearance at the inquiry. "The claim was obviously false. There is no doubt that Iraq did have weapons at one time and something will eventually be found and dressed up as justification, but it won't be anything of the magnitude we were led to believe," Wilkie said. He was speaking at Sydney airport before flying to London to appear before the inquiry this week. Iraq's alleged nuclear programme and cache of chemical and biological weapons was the prime justification used by the US and its allies for going to war in Iraq. So far, troops investigating suspected weapons sites in Iraq have returned empty handed. CC