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

To: cnyndwllr who wrote (442372)	8/13/2003 3:06:11 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

Back up? Where did I "back up?" Buhs administraiton officials were clear that there was some evidence of ties between Al Quaeda and Iraq but nothing definitive. Moreover, the larger concern over Iraq was terrorism as a whole not just Al Quaeda. Statements that Iraq trained and supported terrorists are facts. I am not aware that our intelligence community discredited the uranium purchase issue. In fact, our intelligence community was unable to independently verify that a particualr purchase had been made from Niger. The Brits based their intelligence upon independent informaiton, not all of which was shared with the US and which they still stand behind. As far as WMD, it is now clear the Iraq did possess illegal weapons (Al-Samouds), that there does appear to have been some BW capability (mobile biolabs), that Iraq was, at the very least trying to preserve the capability of creating a nuclear weapon (buried centrifuge and nuke docs., dual use aluminum tubes)in violation of the Gulf war accords. Add to that the atropine injectors and chem suits found all over Iraq and it is not a big leap of faith to see that something is rotten in Baghdad. The Iraqis became masters at deception as far as these programs...so it is no surprise to me that it is taking some time to unearth the smoking gun given all the time the Saddam apolgists provided for him to prepare for the invasion.....Add to all the foregoing the discovery of Salman Pak, terror training facility, the presence of Abu Abbas, Saddam's payments to families of homicide bombers....and the utter vacancy of the pinhead Bush hating morons position is quite clear.....factor in the mass graves.....and its downright silly......