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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: American Spirit who wrote (89861)3/14/2007 2:29:36 PM
From: JakeStraw  Respond to of 173976
 
"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction. "[W]ithout question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation. And now he has continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ...
-Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003



To: American Spirit who wrote (89861)3/14/2007 8:11:18 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (5) | Respond to of 173976
 
lies ...were endless because they repeated them so many times

What does that say about your daily repeats?

Saddam had an active nuclear weapons program (NOT!)

That's what the CIA told him. You can read this yourself - Kenneth Pollack wrote The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq in 2002. This book was discussed thoroughly on the FADG thread back when Faultline was active. I have a copy of it around somewhere. It convinced me personally we should invade Iraq. From 1988 - 1995, Pollack was a CIA analyst on Iraqi and Iranian military issues. Later in the Clinton administration, he worked for the NSC as director for Near East and South Asian Affairs and director for Persian Gulf Affairs. On pages 173-175, he said there was a consensus that Iraq has an active nuclear program; it employed as many as 14,000 workers; and Iraq might be able to build a bomb as early as 2004.

Saddam was allied with Al Qaida (NOT!)

Richard Clarke is on the record as saying Iraq and AQ were allied to produce WMD's:

Iraq conspired with Bin Laden to produce WMDs...according to Richard Clarke
Washington Post
......
(Excerpted from "Embassy Attacks Thwarted, U.S. Says; Official Cites Gains Against Bin Laden; Clinton Seeks $10 Billion to Fight Terrorism," Vernon Loeb, Washington Post, A02, January 23, 1999.)

www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1103455/posts

Saddam was training terrorists to attack the US (NOT!)

True - Saddam trained thousands of terrorists - no one knows who they were to attack:

www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/550kmbzd.asp
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interviews/khodada.html
www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iraq/salman_pak.htm

Saddam had stockpiles of WMD (NOT! and the CIA told Bush-Cheney that six months before the invasion)

Woodward: Tenet told Bush WMD case a 'slam dunk'
Says Bush didn't solicit Rumsfeld, Powell on going to war

Monday, April 19, 2004 Posted: 9:34 AM EDT (1334 GMT)

Bob Woodward's new book offers a revealing, behind-the-scenes look at the run-up to war.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- About two weeks before deciding to invade Iraq, President Bush was told by CIA Director George Tenet there was a "slam dunk case" that dictator Saddam Hussein had unconventional weapons, according to a new book by Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward.

www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/18/woodward.book/

There were many other lies surrounding this, like how "corrupt" the UN was, how "appeasing" the French were,

No need to refute those - that is common knowledge.

how democrats were "traitors" for not backing Bush,

Sorry, the Democrats mostly backed Bush about going to war.

All impeachable offenses too.

Ok, I've shown that all the "lies" you cited weren't lies. Now how many times will you continue to repeat them?