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

To: Sully- who wrote (27038)	1/18/2005 8:56:33 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Why match wits with a witless chump like Orky? He has proven he is invincibly ignorant....

To: Sully- who wrote (27038)	1/18/2005 9:07:04 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Yeah...but it's bull. Saddam is not the only guy in the world with bad intentions and the ability to make weapons. The list is long but here's a few off the top: OBL Mullah of Iran N. Korea Pakistan Outlaw Pakistanis I'll agree that if the threat is imminent, it could be too late, especially if imminent means 30 seconds from now. In the case of Saddam we had the inspectors back in there. We should have followed that course further...all the while holding the hammer over his head. And keeping a close eye on his movements...as we had done for the past 12 years. Clearly our intelligence was lacking. I bet we won't know what happened for at least a decade. It's also clear that the Bush administration was predisposed to attacking Iraq. In the first meeting after 9-11 the Administration discussed the invasion of Iraq. Only Powell vetoed the idea. Wolfowitz said we should use the event of 9-11 as a reason to attack Iraq. So it was shelved in the first post 9-11 meeting...but eventually the hawks won out. WMD was the reason given...but they had their minds made up already: Sept. 15, 2001 Administration debates Iraq at Camp David Four days after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush gathers his national security team at a Camp David war council. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz argues that it is the perfect opportunity to move against state sponsors of terrorism, including Iraq. But Secretary of State Colin Powell tells the president that an international coalition would come together only for an attack on Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, not an invasion of Iraq. The war council votes with Powell; Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld abstains. The president ultimately decides that the war's first phase will be Afghanistan. The question of Iraq will be reconsidered later. pbs.org Orca