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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (703000)	9/21/2005 3:14:07 PM
From: trouthead	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

So you don't believe in learning from history, from your mistakes? Interesting. I am sure you don't think it was a mistake so for you there is nothing to learn. Guess we'll just have to wait ten years to find out. jb

To: Bill who wrote (703000)	9/21/2005 6:09:48 PM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I suspect history will show that 9/11 triggered a form of mass paranoia within America. George Bush wanted Saddam out and figured it would be a walk in the park for our military, so he fed that paranoia with all sorts of misrepresented intelligence. I will never forget two things. 1) The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs saying a year or so before the invasion that Saddam wasn't a threat to anyone (He was effectively canned after that) and 2) watching Powell's presentation before the UN Security council and thinking "That's it? Were going to war based on a drawing of a mobile chem lab?"