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To: stockman_scott who wrote (110718)	8/9/2003 11:03:23 AM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<Despite this, the president and his advisors repeatedly proffered in speeches and public appearances discredited information and hyped rhetoric linking Iraq to terrorism and 9/11. "Weapons of mass destruction" figured most prominently in arguing to the American people that there was an absolute necessity for ending UN inspections and waging a preemptive attack upon Iraq. This unsubstantiated argument was so persuasive that by the time the invasion began, fully 72 percent of the American public believed that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11, without a shred of credible evidence to support such a claim. >>> The usual garbled interpretation of words and motives designed to show things in the worst light. 1. There was no "hyped rhetoric" about a connection between between Iraq and Al Qaeda, merely simple statements about Al Qaeda people having been in Iraq. Which they were, and it may yet be proven there was a direct connection 2. Weapons of Mass Destruction most prominent ?: Yes, definitly and correctly With this history and a refusal to enlighten the UN about he did with all this stuff, he remained a dire threat to us and his neighbors. fas.org 3. Absolute necessity for ending UN Inspections?. It was never stated that way. Saddam could have stopped that war anytime he wished, until the first bomb fell, just by doing what the UN asked and required in their resolutions , when failure to do that would end the truce their of 1992. . Allow overflights( He didn't) Allow Inspectors to question scientists without monitoring the conversation( he didn't) Allow Scientists and their family to leave the country for interrogation ( never happened) Prove to the UN what he did with the huge quantities of WMD's he had when they left in 1998 ( He did not) Sig Got to stop here, mighty rainstorm in area. .