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To: Neocon who wrote (141062)	7/20/2004 4:40:54 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

It's always good to believe. We don't need no stinkin' evidence. Except if you don't hold with the W PR line du jour, in which case "preponderating evidence" is required. Want a (c) on that dubious phrase?

To: Neocon who wrote (141062)	7/20/2004 4:47:01 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I don't care if it was space aliens -- no WMDs and no WMD programs were found in Iraq. Iran, right next door, has an active nuclear program. Pakistan has a nuclear program and weapons. And both of the them are far more likely to pose a terrorist threat to us than Iraq. Bush and his pals laid on the hyperbole as thick as could be, and then came up with absolutely nothing -- and now they cannot bring themselves, in the face of the tragic loss of life that resulted from their decisions, to utter a simple acknowledgement -- they were wrong, dead wrong. And the war was a mistake. Even their own hand-picked WMD guy is now telling them to admit they were wrong and that the war was not necessary. There is really only one reason they won't do it -- they value their own political skin more than they value the lives of the Americans who died because of their mistake, and they have no honor.