> A surprising number of people on this list bought into the
> nonsense that the
> White House was peddling prior to the pre-emptive attack on
> Iraq, that it had
> weapons of mass destruction, with missiles capable of
> reaching the United
> States. But it was always clear that Iraq did not have:
>
>      o weapons of mass destruction

On this it does not matter what we find, you and those like you will simply
redefine WMD until it meets your needs. Even if they find nukes you will
probably say WMD really only mean anit-matter weapons.

>      o an army sufficient to be a threat to any of its neighbors

Just because they did not last long against our troops does not change the
fact that their conventional forces were the envy of every Arab nation.

>      o any sort of long-range missile capability

I do not remember a claim that they had missles capable of reaching the US.

Korea claims to have such missles but the concern about Iraq's missles
seemed to be with their ability to hit Isreal and US interests in the middle
east.

>      o nor was it home base to any terrorist activity

Gee, I guess a terrorist base camp and a training school is not considered
activity.

>

> If you listen carefully to the news for the next several
> weeks, you're going
> to start hearing the same shrill nonsense be said about Syria
> and Iran.
> Ideally, you won't be nearly so prone to buy into this second
> or third time.
>

President Bush has been pretty clear about his intentions to go after those
governments who are sponsoring terrorists. This will be accomplished by a
variety of methods including sanctions, diplomacy and military depending on
the situation.

Perhaps it caught you by suprise that he actually meant what he said?

> I truly wonder if Florida would have gone so overwhelmingly
> for GW Bush if
> they had known in advance that this agenda is what they were
> voting for.
>

Well with a 70% approval rating, and the majority of American's stating that
are relieved that Al Gore was not the president post 9/11, they seem pretty
happy about his agenda.

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