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

To: DavesM who wrote (448108)	8/26/2003 11:29:09 AM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

the UAV lie was not in the SOTU...it was in this nationally televised speech: whitehouse.gov To make the Iraq invasion legitimate by saying they might be a threat...someday...maybe... you might as well insert the name of any country you want in there. To invade another country requires MUCH higher standards than a personal judgement of "...maybe...someday...if I ignore evidence against my desire to invade....if I LIE to the American people..." Your problem is that when shrub says anything (that's intelligible) you want to believe it's true. You have to ignore ALOT of lies to reach that bias to believe. When shrub says it's ok to invade just because information can be twisted to SCARE YOU...and you believe it...that's EXACTLY why it's wrong-headed to go that way. Too many people can be herded into attacking ANYWHERE based on such an approach.

To: DavesM who wrote (448108)	8/26/2003 11:35:28 AM
From: Don Hurst	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

>>" "Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike? If this threat is permitted to fully and suddenly emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come too late. Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a strategy, and it is not an option." "<< Yup, there is no doubt that the selected one knew about the balsam wood drone and the chemical suit that Saddam was going to put on after he dug up the buried nuke documents (his library card had expired) built the bomb with the uranium on its way from Niger, then after relieving himself in one of the "caustically cleaned" mobile toilets he was going to mount the drone and fly it into the WH. Oh great wonders.....the "civilized" world has been saved by the selected one who gets his instructions from the great deity in the sky.