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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (149710)10/29/2004 5:10:06 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
the point of drawing the comparison was to illustrate that the Cheney/Bush campaign quite willingly paints a misleading picture for the public by presenting an apples to orange, or diving-weight to tennis ball, comparison.

If even after accounting for all your points the amount of high explosives in the mutitions that Bush mentioned dwarves the 377 tons (or pehaps less, maybe much less) of explosives then the comparison isn't misleading.

As for the more general comments about the plan not being perfect or mistakes even blunders being made see

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