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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (11414)8/9/2003 9:53:11 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Respond to of 14610
 
Okaaay. Reducing that to one sentence, we haven't found WMD because they weren't there. Exactly what Saddam said prior to the war. Now looked at THAT WAY, that's rather interesting, don't you think?

So in order to remove weapons that didn't exist and that UN inspectors couldn't find before the war, we stuck our heads into a Middle Eastern meat grinder.

Along that line, you might find these interesting:
Message 19186290
Message 19167740

Oh yes, I do not intend to respond point by point to 10,000 world articles that you can cut and paste in seconds from the WSJ. Instead, I'll go find my own 10,000-word nukes and lob them at you.

Pearl Harbor: To my knowledge, no reliable source has ever stated those winds codes were intercepted by the US or anyone else. They may never have been sent. Husband and Short, the Army commander in Hawaii, were given dribs and drabs of information, but never the whole picture that Washington had. Afterwards, they were used as convenient scapegoats by people who themselves should have been courtmartialed and shot.