To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (6880 ) 3/20/2004 6:48:24 PM From: blue red Read Replies (2) | Respond to So you have PROOF the CIA said "Mr. President, there are no WMD in Iraq"? qualifiers that dropped out of the public statements of Bush & Co. If they had said to Congress, to the citizens, and to the UN what they had actually been told, they would have an exculpatory leg to stand on - but they couldn't have justified killing 10,000 people in Iraq without waiting for the IAEA to complete inspections. I think they wanted so badly for WMDs to exist that the qualifiers dropped out of consciousness. Out of the statement above, the words "Iraq has WMDs" jumped off the page, and adult judgment was stifled. They said to the world, "We KNOW that Saddam has two trailers for making chemical toxins," even though their own Defense Intelligence Agency had expressed serious doubts about the purpose of the trailers. (They were for making hydrogen for weather balloons, apparently.) We know this, we know that. Always, they expressed certainty when all they had was uncertainty. Because I can come with statements from Democrats, INCLUDING BILL CLINTON, that really give you pause to wonder. BTW, you avoided the main thrust of that post, which had to do with the presumptive Dem nominee attending a meeting at which the assasination of the President and some Senators was discussed and doing nothing.
