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To: stockman_scott who wrote (113399)	8/30/2003 2:17:16 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

<Rice Says U.S. Has No Imperial Ambitions> Methinks the lady doth protest too much... <"I have no doubt that that picture will confirm that this was a regime that was a grave threat to international peace and security because of its intent on having the world's worst weapons," Rice said.> Notice the successive fall-back positions of the Administration. First, they had WMD. Full stop, no equivocation. Then, they had programs of WMD. Now, they have intent. What's next, after bad intentions? Bad dreams? <"We need allies and need them badly," > We want their money, their troops, the legitimacy they can give us. We want their leaders to stand on the podium with us, smiling while we lay down the Party Line. But all power remains with us, that doesn't get shared. The model for this, is a Stalinist-style Popular Front. Or the Warsaw Pact. We need more useful idiots, more cowed minions. <...with Iraq and with the Palestinian state and with what we've done in Afghanistan...it is the spread of values that will make us more secure."> I wonder what good American values she thinks our close ally General Death-By-Container Dostum is teaching the Afghans? The Israelis have had 36 years now, to teach the Palestinians those good American values, and no matter how many they kill, the Arabs still don't get it. I wonder why... <"But that Iraq was a threat, that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, that Iraq had used those weapons of mass destruction on its neighbors and its own people, that Iraq had ambitions in the volatile region of the Middle East and was therefore a danger to international security, these were shared premises of the entire international community," she said.> A lie, repeated often enough, by people of Authority, becomes fact. Or, in this case, a string of lies. Notice, also, that all claims tied to any specific year (like 2002 or 2003), have disappeared. Pre-war, all these statements had words like "now", and "today" in them. Gone now. As if chemical weapons in 1988 justified war in 2003. Clever, but too clever.