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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MrLucky who wrote (13735)	8/18/2004 3:33:50 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

According to orcastraitor - we wait until we are vaporized before deciding to attack. According to Mr. Lucky we go to war on faulty intelligence. This whole bunch of baloney about MI-5 and Putin also saying there were WMD in Iraq is noting more than group think. MI-5 says there's WMD because the CIA says there's WMD, because the Russians say there's WMD. But if you read the declassified reports on Iraq...you never see any definitive statement saying Saddam has WMD. Only statements of probability or possibilities. That does not qualify as an imminent threat. During the Cuban Missile crisis...that was an imminent threat, and we had the pictures to prove it. The dog and pony show that the Bush administration sent Powell to the UN to present was so full of holes...and all based on INC operative Curveball's descriptions of WMD and WMD programs...all of which later proved to be bunk. More than ever we need to find out why the intelligence that was used to take our nation to war was faulty. We need a commission to study that question. And we need to improve our intelligence system...we're all agreed on that. Bush was trigger happy. He went into his administration with a predisposition to attack Iraq....before 9-11. "The lessons of 9-11" has become the mantra of the Bush campaign. But the lessons of a half-baked, ill-planned, under manned, unilateral and pre-emptive war in Iraq will mark the outcome of Bush's defeat in November. Orca