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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (181562)	1/26/2004 10:18:40 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576893

Asked whether President Bush (news - web sites) owed the nation an explanation for the gap between his warnings and Kay's findings, Kay said: "I actually think the intelligence community owes the president, rather than the president owing the American people." What a self serving coward...himself a ubiquitous figure on every talk show hawking the weapons and the futility of the inspections...himself distorting the truth at every chance...ironic and poetic justice that he would be the one to decisively validate the effectiveness of that same inspection process he so derided...but the coward of course shines through and excludes himself from the same crowd who egged on the bush administration in its deliberate and calculated omissions and manipulations...meanwhile 512 soldiers are dead , while countless more are scarred physically and emotionally. I hope you are proud of your president and his unwavering "principles" and the "honor" he has restored in the WH. Al

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (181562)	1/26/2004 11:30:05 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576893

From BBC: Ousting Saddam 'no cause for war' The reasons for the war are still being questioned A leading human rights group has said the US and UK are wrong to use the toppling of a brutal regime in Baghdad to justify going to war against Iraq. The group, Human Rights Watch asked why George Bush and Tony Blair did not try remove Saddam Hussein much earlier. Its report comes as the former US chief weapons inspector questioned the CIA's assessment of the threat from Iraq. Tony Blair is also under pressure, awaiting the findings of an inquiry into the death of a UK weapons expert. Mr Blair and Mr Bush have come under increasing pressure from critics of the war over their failure to produce convincing evidence that Saddam Hussein possessed banned weapons of mass destruction. In its annual World Report, the New York-based Human Rights Watch also said: Human rights are deteriorating in Afghanistan due to a reliance by US-led forces on warlords to defeat Taleban and al-Qaeda fighters The Bush administration uses threats to national security to justify putting executive action in the United States above the law Russian authorities justify the war in Chechnya as their contribution to the war on terror, while European and other governments ignore appalling human rights abuses there There was a "moment of hope" in Africa with African leaders trying to stop regional wars and the associated abuses, through bodies like the African Union Flawed justification Human Rights Watch said Mr Bush and Mr Blair should not try to justify the war retrospectively as an effort to save human life. The Bush administration cannot justify the war in Iraq as a humanitarian intervention, and neither can Tony Blair Human Rights Watch "Only mass slaughter might permit the deliberate taking of life in using military force for humanitarian purposes," it said. "Brutal as Saddam Hussein's reign had been, the scope of the Iraq Government's killing in March 2003, was not of the exceptional and dire magnitude that would justify humanitarian intervention. "The Bush administration cannot justify the war in Iraq as a humanitarian intervention, and neither can Tony Blair." In a US radio interview on Monday, the former chief US weapons inspector David Kay cast further doubt on the existence in Iraq of banned weapons of mass destruction. Mr Kay said he thought the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) owed Mr Bush an explanation for warnings about the threat Iraq posed. The issue is also stalking Mr Blair, whose political future depends on the findings of a report to be released on Wednesday which will examine claims he exaggerated the threat from Iraq.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (181562)	1/26/2004 9:04:22 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576893

Ted, here's a quote that will refute every single one of your accusations. Either that, or you'll start including David Kay in your "vast right-wing conspiracy." From #reply-19730839: Asked whether President Bush (news - web sites) owed the nation an explanation for the gap between his warnings and Kay's findings, Kay said: "I actually think the intelligence community owes the president, rather than the president owing the American people." For God's sake, you can't make the president the fall guy. I mean.....you've got to be more aware than that, Tenchusatsu? Your naiveté is starting to worry me. Really! ted