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

To: PROLIFE who wrote (703338)	9/23/2005 5:01:43 PM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I read the links you provided. Thanks. The national review article seems well researched and logical. I take no issue with it. The CNSNEWS link claiming that secret documents linked Saddam to WMD and terror... well... I'm going to have to view that with a great deal of skepticism. It came out in Oct 2004, the smoking gun in time for the presidential election, from an organization that tends to like Bush. Election politics aside, it's been almost two years since the article came out. I spent some time Googling many of the names and organizations mentioned in the documents and and apparently nothing new came out since that time. That's odd. I would think these documents would have led to others that would have shed more light on the subjects, or Google's massive databases would have added something. I found many repeats of the CNS News article in various places, but nothing of substance. In the two years since the CNS article nothing else has surfaced? That's very odd. Many of the memos describe an organization and mention "relationships". My thinking is that the person to whom the memo was addressed would know of the organization and not need the fluff. It's almost like the writer was writing for someone other than the recipient. There were errors in the translation. The Islam Clerks Society should be Clerics society. No big deal, but two translators got it wrong, and a Google of the organization under several variations found nothing of substance. The reference to purchases of WMD materials indicated "Saddam' Companies". Nothing further. The experts evaluating this for CNS had to guess exactly what this ment, usuing words like "probably". And the equipment list... very small... but listed "gloves". Of all the equipment of interest, gloves, the kind of which every hospital has millions? The Bush Administration had over a thousand personnel in Iraq for months looking for any trace of WMD and came to the same conclusion the UN did. NONE. I think the President would give his right arm for such evidence. The CNS article, while interesting, is lacking in several aspects and, two years later, has yet to be corraborated.