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

To: DizzyG who wrote (534801)	2/3/2004 12:34:12 PM
From: Land Shark	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 769670

Lies, Lies, Lies A. "The intelligence community owes the president (an apology) rather than the president owing (one to) the American people." Bush distorted the intelligence data and owes them an appology. B. The administration did not pressure the intelligence agencies to overstate the WMD threat. Cheney did so pressure them C. While Bush relied on possibly erroneous intelligence, so did Saddam himself and his generals, the Clinton administration, France, Germany and Britain. France and Germany weren't involved in this mess. Britain had equal interest in Iraqs Oil wealth and was full partner with the US in fabricating the case for war. Pointing to Clinton, as GOPs do always in every case, is no excuse for acting illegally. D. "What we learned during the inspection made Iraq a more dangerous place, potentially, than, in fact, we thought it was even before the war." Nonsense, inspection efforts in the 90's resulted in discovery and destruction of ALL significant Chem weapons that Iraq had in it's disposal. E. Iraq was a magnet for international terrorists who were free to operate there, and plan and conduct their deadly mischief. (Head)Rush is trying to give the impression that Saddam had someting to do with 9/11 (as did the misadministration). This is nonsense, prior to invasion... But this is true now that the US has successfully managed to rally the Jihadist movement into Iraq.

To: DizzyG who wrote (534801)	2/3/2004 12:35:57 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Do you realistically think that'll pass snuff in a 'no-spin zone?" I mean you still can't deal with the fact that mere me knew there was no WMD in Iraq, but Bush, our president--who had a dad that was a president and a former director of the CIA--didn't know what I knew? Come on, be realistic! Why did Bob Graham (D-FL) of the Senate Intelligence Committee know to vote against the preemptive war resolution? Think he had access to bad intelligence? Strongly recommend you go and read SI's DON'T START THE WAR thread--[note: this thread's header links got transferred to SI's Stop the War thread]--and read every post from start to finish. Were you to do this, you'd find out why many of us knew there was no WMD and no Al Qaeda connections to Iraq. Remember, as you do this, that most of the GOPwinger folks who post here, argued against us and said the country was full of WMD and Al Qaeda connections. Who was right? I think had Bush not set up that little intelligence shop over at the Pentagon, the quality CIA reports would have gotten to the top, instead of the slanted ones. But Bush knew this anyway. He only wanted the kind of intelligence that he could use to justify his war.