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

To: Neocon who wrote (437367)	8/1/2003 7:42:21 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

There is a bold and entirely plausible theory .... That's pretty much the theory that reasonable people had before the hysteria that preceeded the war. Saddam Hussein, the theory holds, ordered the destruction of his weapon stocks well before the war to deprive the United States of a rationale to attack his regime and to hasten the eventual lifting of the United Nations sanctions. Well, before the war, starting in 1991 and ending a few years later. Even during the first Bush war it would be clear to the Iraqis that chemical and biological weapons would be more of a hinderance than a valid weapon. They might have buried a few parts under the roses, but that type of weapons only provided problems while he was dealing with the U.N., which turned out to be a much more effective deterrent than bombs and cruise missles. Not that it would have mattered, the neocons were determined to capture the oil fields regardless of what the Iraqis did. TP

To: Neocon who wrote (437367)	8/1/2003 9:17:11 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Neocon, nice article. Unfortunately, that's what most of the world and, many moderate Americans, suspected pre-invasion. It's ironic for the Times to highlight this view after we've conducted an invasion based upon the fears and concerns generated by the "imminent threat" messages that were continuously hammered at us by Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush, Rice, Wolf-- and others. I often listened to their speeches and thought that maybe the administration knew something the rest of the world didn't. The keys that eventually led me to believe that the administration had a hidden agenda, were the many inconsistencies in their assertions, the highly emotional level of their rhetoric and the fact that they couldn't come up with a good answer for "why now." When we send our young to kill, die and come home wounded and maimed, we should be the skeptics from hell, not believers in the tooth fairy.