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To: SilentZ who wrote (729583)	7/29/2013 2:15:57 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576159

Bin Laden was never the Bush/Cheney objective, Saddam was. 9/11 was just the provocation they needed to anger America enough to be able to mislead it into Iraq. After that, bin Laden was irrelevant. They had a war in Iraq to mishandle, the Dickster was able to feed profits to his war profiteer buddies, it let Rummy try his new theories, and of course, let W and Rove reap the benefits of his being a "war president".

To: SilentZ who wrote (729583)	7/29/2013 11:18:32 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576159

>Let's not forget the atmosphere that existed back then after 9/11 where people were afraid to object to anything that might be seen as criticism of Bush/Cheney and the crap they were pulling. Seems to me McDermott showed some courage questioning the Bush/Cheney BS. There's a difference between questioning and rumormongering. There was plenty of evidence in 2002 that we were being lied into war (I saw it a little too late, myself). But there was none to support that we were delaying capturing Saddam. We're talking about the same idiots who couldn't get bin Laden at all in seven years. They couldn't quietly pick and choose when they got Saddam. Back in 2002, the full level of Bush/Cheney's incompetence was not known. We didn't know that during the next 6 years, they would not capture bin Laden. What was know is that they were fairly deceptive and secretive. So some people like McDermott [and me] were becoming suspicious that they were playing games. It wasn't until NOLA that we figured out just how incapable of governing they were. So I don't have a problem with McDermott bringing up rumors that might have had some truth to them.