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

To: JakeStraw who wrote (419460)6/27/2003 3:57:10 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
"The really dumb argument is that Bush simply made up the whole thing. This line is rarely offered explicitly by serious people because it is so illogical."

Message 19067489;

That's what you all want to believe but that's not the argument. The argument is that when Bush could not get the American public's backing for the war, he took what little info he had on WMD and made it into a compelling argument, using fear as a backdrop, to convince the Amer. public. Its the Machiavellian nature of his argument.....the over the top mendacity that is so offensive.

Of course, you knew all that. I love it when conservatives play stupid!



To: JakeStraw who wrote (419460)6/27/2003 4:04:14 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 769670
 
Yes Jake, you knew that Bush was hyping the treat of nuclear weapons, and was hyping the threat of chemical and biological weapons, and was hyping a link of al-qaeda to Saddam Hussein.
He was doing it to gain political support for the Iraq invasion. Now, the preponderance of evidence indicates there was no immenent threat and no link to al=qaeda. History will record the proper verdict.


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