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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (68067)	10/8/2005 12:44:52 PM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

The facts bear out that before 911, much evidence linking Iraq to Al Qaeda had been described. You folks here claim Iraq was no threat and that there were no terrorists there before the war. That's just false, IMHO. In deference to that David Kay said: "I think Baghdad was actually becoming more dangerous in the last two years than even we realized. Saddam was not controlling the society any longer. In the marketplace of terrorism and of WMD, Iraq well could have been that supplier if the war had not intervened......we found a lot of terrorist groups and individuals that passed through Iraq." The effort to destroy evidence in Iraq was well documented by Kay, efforts both before and after the initial invasion. What do you think they hid? Copies of Mother Goose in those files and on those hard drives? As I said, your "relevant links" didn't show an Iraq war was planned ahead of time. Given all the intelligence known, we should be concerned if we found no consideration was given to controlling Iraq early on in this administration. David Kay said "Clearly, the intelligence that we went to war on was inaccurate, wrong. We need to understand why that was. I think if anyone was abused by the intelligence it was the president of the United States rather than the other way around." The above is a wholly reasonable point of view, given what we know the world community believed of WMD's in Iraq, and yes, before 911. You can delve into the details of what Kay found and didn't find, and easily see why the prior quote from him above makes sense, which makes the Iraq war a damn good thing to have done. Dan B.