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

To: Don Hurst who wrote (746542)	7/29/2006 1:06:15 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

WMD Truth Is Out Posted 7/25/2006 WMD: Americans are waking up from a distorted reality. Half now believe that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. That's up sharply from last year, when only 36% believed that he had banned weapons. The numbers, from a Harris Poll conducted earlier this month, showed — again — that the "Bush lied" crowd doesn't have a good handle on the truth. The growing number of believers is most likely due to recent reports that 500 shells that contained the nerve agents mustard gas and sarin gas have been found in Iraq since Saddam's regime was toppled in 2003. The typical media response to the poll is brilliantly represented by the get-Bush staff of Editor & Publisher, which used this loaded headline on its Web site: "Harris Poll: Half of Americans Still Believe Iraq Had WMD." The E&P article goes on to say that "despite several years of official and press reports to the contrary, a new Harris poll finds that half of adult Americans still believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction" when the U.S. invaded in 2003. If there's a "despite" to be used in describing the poll findings, it should read like this: "Despite several years of media efforts to cover up the truth, Americans believe that Iraq had WMD." True, no "smoking gun" — if the definition of smoking gun is an intercontinental ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead attached — has been found. But there are plenty of facts that support the administration's prewar assertion that Saddam posed a danger. • David Kay, head of the Iraq Survey Group, told the London Telegraph that "a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD program." • Charles Duelfer, who followed Kay as head of the ISG, told Congress in 2004 that "a lot of materials left Iraq and went to Syria." • Inspectors found evidence of Saddam's intent to "resume WMD production as soon as" sanctions against Iraq were lifted. • President Clinton, Sen. John Kerry, Jacques Chirac and a host of other Bush bashers believed Saddam had WMD. While more than 48,000 boxes of military documents have been captured since Baghdad fell, fewer than 100 have been studied. Those few have yielded a trove of information on Saddam's weapons programs. How much more information will be turned up as Washington sifts through more boxes in the next year? Enough to shut the "Bush lied" crowd up for good, we expect. investors.com