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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (181579)	1/26/2004 1:01:59 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578302

To you, a "coward" is anyone who isn't willing to criticize Bush. Here's a true coward... Al ================================================== Principled American Leadership “The duties of our day are different. But the values of our nation do not change. Let us reject the blinders of isolationism, just as we refuse the crown of empire. Let us not dominate others with our power - or betray them with our indifference. And let us have an American foreign policy that reflects American character. The modesty of true strength. The humility of real greatness. This is the strong heart of America. And this will be the spirit of my administration.” The arrogance, inconsistency, and unreliability of the administration’s diplomacy have undermined American alliances, alienated friends, and emboldened our adversaries. - Governor George W. Bush

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (181579)	1/26/2004 1:04:26 PM
From: Alighieri	Respond to of 1578302

"All we are interested in is getting rid of those weapons of mass destruction. We think the Iraqi people would be a lot better off with a different leader, a different regime, but the principal offense here are weapons of mass destruction," Powell on Meet the Press Al

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (181579)	1/26/2004 1:20:22 PM
From: Alighieri	Respond to of 1578302

The other day you posted that bush had never used the words "imminent threat" ... you were right. Al =============================================== Of course, phrases like "growing and gathering danger," "mushroom cloud," "urgent duty," "any day," and "less than a year" popped up from time to time, and Bush actually cited a nonexistent report from the International Atomic Energy Agency saying that Iraq was "six months away from developing a weapon" (while adding "I don't know what more evidence we need"), but Ingraham and others stick to their guns. So did Bush deliberately try to make people believe there was an imminent threat? Or is Ms. Ingraham correct in saying that Bush never implied any such thing? Consider these statements from the President's Oct. 7, 2002 speech at the Cincinnati Museum Center: * "If we know that Saddam Hussein has dangerous weapons today, and we do, does it make any sense for the world to wait to confront him as he grows even stronger and develops even more dangerous weapons?" * "America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun -- that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." * "Understanding the threats of our time, knowing the designs and deceptions of the Iraqi regime, we have every reason to assume the worst, and we have an urgent duty to prevent the worst from occurring." * "Iraq could decide on any given day to provide a biological or chemical weapon to a terrorist group or individual terrorists." * "The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program. Saddam Hussein has held numerous meetings with Iraqi nuclear scientists, a group he calls his "nuclear mujahideen". . . If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy, or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year." Given that the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's recent study concluded that the Bush administration "systematically misrepresented" the threat from Saddam Hussein's weapons program and said Iraq did not "pose an immediate threat to the United States, to the region or to global security," it's easy to understand why right wing pundits are now saying that Bush never portrayed Iraq as an imminent threat. The study also concluded that Saddam's nuclear program had been dismantled, his chemical weapons capabilities had been destroyed and that "there was no solid evidence of a cooperative relationship between Saddam's government and Al Qaeda." When Colin Powell was asked about the Carnegie report, he replied, "I have not seen smoking-gun, concrete evidence about the connection, but I think the possibility of such connections did exist and it was prudent to consider them at the time that we did." Yet just under a year ago, Colin Powell went before the United Nations with a laundry that went well beyond "consideration." "This is evidence, not conjecture. This is true. This is all well documented," he said, while conjuring horrific visions of Saddam bearing nukes. "We have no indication that Saddam Hussein has ever abandoned his nuclear weapons program. On the contrary, we have more than a decade of proof that he remains determined to acquire nuclear weapons," Powell said.