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To: Jim S who wrote (53077)	11/6/2006 4:06:26 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Good point - one that mystified me for a long time as well. It eventually hit me though that when you see how the MSM & DNC insidiously distorted, lied & misled the public about the ISG report , you can see why the Bush Admin may have decided it was best to leave the justifications for Saddam's removal behind & move forward with all of the critical tasks at hand. The Bush Admin knew full well that anything they tried to say to the American public would have to go through the BDS filter of the MSM. When the ISG report was issued the MSM & DNC intentionally lied & misled the American public about its findings & conclusions. They cherry picked some findings, took others completely out of context & concocted a completely fabricated story line that was contrary to the overall conclusions of the ISG report. They also did precisely the same thing to the public statements & official meetings with Congress of the 2 chief inspectors of the ISG, David Kay & Charles Duelfer. It is irrefutable that their overall statements & conclusions clearly justify Saddam's removal. Meanwhile the MSM & DNC intentionally ignored, lied, distorted, cherry picked statements out of context & thoroughly misled the public of what these 2 men really said. In fact the MSM & DNC did precisely what they falsely claimed Bush did to "lie & mislead" us into war.

To: Jim S who wrote (53077)	11/6/2006 9:58:03 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

>>I couldn't agree more. What I don't understand, though, is why the administration isn't out there beating this drum? There's plenty of evidence that there WERE WMDs in Iraq, for example, yet I hear no defense from anybody. Maybe if Bush had made more noise about this, his Job Approval polls wouldn't be in the 30s?<< Jim - The reason the Bush Administration isn't beating this drum is probably related to the fact that there really isn't plenty of evidence that there were WMDs. The ISG report doesn't provide proof, though Sully claims it does. Read it yourself, if you don't believe me. I'm still waiting to see credible evidence from a credible source. I can remember seeing Bush explaining the fact that WMDs weren't found by arguing that there were failures in the Intelligence operations. (Which still didn't stop him from giving Tenet the Medal of Freedom.) I'm sure we could dig up that footage somewhere. If there were proof, you can be quite sure that the Bush Administration wouldn't have let anyone forget it. - Allen