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

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (584962)	6/23/2004 10:22:13 PM
From: DavesM	Respond to of 769670

"Under those circumstances, I said, that's actionable enough for me -- that that plant could in fact be producing not baby aspirin or some other pharmaceutical for the benefit of the people, but it was enough for me to say we should take it out -- and I recommended that." "Now, I was criticized for that, saying, you didn't have enough. And I put myself in the position of coming before you and having someone like you say to me, "Let me get this straight, Mr. Secretary, we've just had a chemical weapons attack upon our cities or our troops and we've lost several hundred or several thousand. And this is the information which you had at your fingertips. You had a plant that was built under the following circumstances, had you manager that went to Baghdad, you had Osama bin Laden who had funded at least the corporation, and you had traces of EMTA (a chemical with NO know use other than as a component in IRAQI - and only Iraqi - VX gas) and did you what? You did nothing? Is that a responsible activity on the part of the Secretary of Defense?" And the answer is pretty clear. So I was satisfied, even though that still is pointed as a mistake, that it was the right thing to do then. I would do it again, based on that kind of intelligence..." Question: "Mr. Secretary, thank you again for a very, very helpful and thought-provoking statement that you gave us. I want to probe and push a little bit harder on two things that you've already talked about a little bit. One is the decision to fire the missiles into Sudan at El-Shifa plant. You've outlined in very specific detail three or four reasons why you decided to do that and why you might have regretted doing that at a later point." "COHEN: No, I never regretted doing that." - William Cohen to the 9/11 Commission re:"You have a source that says that was the reason bombed the plant....ie because of a link between Saddam and Al-Quaeda? "