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To: DOUG H who wrote (428854)	7/18/2003 8:59:36 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The WMD's are taken for granted by every PRO-American without an axe to grind. (Among the wrong-heaaded: the pitiful Wesley Clark, a typical peacetime "political" general, a man of limited intelligence and instinct, who sold his soul to Clinton, and now can't understand where that once-powerful criminal went. The brutal world of American politics will chew up and spit out Wesley Clark, just like the Founders designed it to do.) The "no WMD's" fraud is EXACTLY like the Holocaust denial, and the old denials of the Stalin Terror from the 30's and 50's. The pending uncovering of additional documented proof will mean nothing to the Marxist/Leninist anti-American left, whose MO has always been to stare inconvenient facts in the face and deny their existence. Thus the Marxist/Leninist anti-American left will go on perpetrating the "no WMD's fraud for the duration, just as they have the revisionist lies about Vietnam, the Reagan Boom, and the corrupt social-welfare state they helped build. Unfortunately, they are very likely to drag the Democratic party down the sewer of history with them...

To: DOUG H who wrote (428854)	7/18/2003 9:26:21 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Doug, Ann Landers, here to answer your most pressing questions... 1) "If Iraq did not have chem/bio/nuke programs why on earth did'nt anyone speak up BEFORE the war?" Memories are short, gentle reader. Perhaps you have somewhere vaguely in the back of your mind a recollection that on February 15th, the world witnessed the largest mass demonstrations ever against a war that almost all attendees agreed was being based on falsehoods. 15,000,000 on the streets and hundreds of millions of others understood we were being lied to. 2) "While everyone in the previous Administration and the U.N.@sanctions.com also believed Iraq had C/B/N programs and thats why they imposed sanctions in the first place. So were they lying too?" Absolutely. The Clinton Administration and the Bush 41 Administration imposed the sanctions in order to weaken an enemy state, not because Iraq had a credible military. It did not, as of March, 1991. But the U.S. wanted to weaken the nation of Iraq for a decade so that the inevitable conquest would be a cakewalk. We achieved that goal. America doesn't give a damn about the people of Iraq. The U.S. policy is explicitly designed to eliminate the population of Iraq, which has a claim on the oil that we lust after. 3) "One more question while I'm at it, and this one is really buggin me, If Somomizer never had C/B/N programs all along and everyone else just made em up (was it Bush that made em up? Oh, never mind), why on Earth did'nt he just cooperate with UN teams and avert the asskickin he just took?" This puzzled me for a long while as well. The answer is twofold. First of all, Hussein did cooperate with the UN teams. It was the PNAC ideologues who were successfully able to convince the American public that he was not, by endlessly repeated lies on TV, hate radio, in the press, etc. Recall that when Hussein provided a 12,000 document to the UN last October in conformance with UN requirements on disclosure, it was the U.S. that stole this document from New York, took it to Washington and removed 8,000 incriminating pages from the document before the U.S. would allow distribution to the non-permanent members of the UN Security Council. Only the U.S.'s closest allies at the time were allowed to see the complete document. A second point is this. There has never been a successful civilian transfer of power in Iraq. Hussein knew this, and any untruthful bluster that he may have maintained about A/B/C weapons may have been as much for the purpose of maintain his regime in power against the Shias and Kurds as for any foreign policy purpose.