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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Carragher who wrote (6340)	11/9/2003 9:59:07 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10965

Did our President and his Administration LIE to take our country into a reckless and unnecessary war in Iraq...? news.independent.co.uk <<...An unprecedented array of US intelligence professionals, diplomats and former Pentagon officials have gone on record to lambast the Bush administration for its distortion of the case for war against Iraq. In their view, the very foundations of intelligence-gathering have been damaged in ways that could take years, even decades, to repair. A new documentary film beginning to circulate in the United States features one powerful condemnation after another, from the sort of people who usually stay discreetly in the shadows - a former director of the CIA, two former assistant secretaries of defence, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and even the man who served as President Bush's Secretary of the Army until just a few months ago. Between them, the two dozen interviewees reveal how the pre-war intelligence record on Iraq showed virtually the opposite of the picture the administration painted to Congress, to US voters and to the world. They also reconstruct the way senior White House officials - notably Vice-President Dick Cheney - leaned on the CIA to find evidence that would fit a preordained set of conclusions. "There was never a clear and present danger. There was never an imminent threat. Iraq - and we have very good intelligence on this - was never part of the picture of terrorism," says Mel Goodman, a veteran CIA analyst who now teaches at the National War College. The case for accusing Saddam Hussein of concealing weapons of mass destruction was, in the words of the veteran CIA operative Robert Baer, largely achieved through "data mining" - going back over old information and trying to wrest new conclusions from it. The agenda, according to George Bush Senior's ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Chas Freeman, was both highly political and profoundly misguided...>>

To: John Carragher who wrote (6340)	11/9/2003 12:46:15 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10965

I thought they would have some feedback. I am an ordinary American so I don't have a medical background. I accept Dr. Dean's proposals because I don't have a critical opinion. Some nurses like what he said though. Dean got a big endorsement from a labor union that has 750,000 health care workers. >>>>>>>>>>>>> " Key Labor Union Endorses Howard Dean EXCERPT: " SEIU represents about 750,000 health care workers, an issue that Dean, a doctor, has promised to highlight during the campaign, although he has been largely defined by his outspoken stance against the Iraqi war. Martha Baker, a registered nurse and president of an SEIU local in Miami, said, "Our positions fit very well with Dean's views. We feel he's closest to us on the issues." FULL STORY: Message 19475498