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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (141627)	7/27/2004 12:52:36 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"Patently absurd" to say that it took 14 months to position ourselves for the invasion of Iraq? I have one word for you; "Turkey." We were still trying to move troops and equipment into Turkey for an invasion from the North when we finally gave up on Turkey's permission because they were "charging" us a lot but not enough to convince their legislature that they ought to allow us to base from there. We then started shifting plans and mobilizing from other bases. I don't think you can take a "best case" scenario and then jump to the step of saying anything else is "patently absurd." Your other point that "nspections had failed before, and were expected to fail again," is intellectually weak for two reasons. First, inspections had NOT generally "failed." For the most part the inspection process had reined in his efforts on wmds and had resulted in the destruction of existing stocks of wmds. Second, and more importantly, however, inspections gave us the opportunity to cross check the "intelligence" that we were "relying" upon with regard to his massive wmd programs. We had all these supposed defectors with all their tall tales and many specifics that we could have checked out with unlimited access throughout the country. We did, in fact, send the U.N. inspectors to check out some of their information and according to the inspectors, IN EVERY INSTANCE they came up with evidence that the information was BOGUS. That is, as you should know, when we told the inspectors to leave because we were invading. No matter how you spin it, that fact alone tells more than all the words and protestations of the "dangerous Saddam" Bush crowd. Of course if you are so cautious that you're willing to invade any country that isn't "for us," based on the uncertainty of the future, then we did the right thing and we have a whole lot more work to do in conquering the world. When we get through then we can start to worry about how we'll control all those billions of people who want to kill us for what we've done.