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From: "Erik Vistica" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Re: Rules for being a republican


> Greg Stigers wrote:
> > "Bill Shanks" wrote in part:
> >
> >>Where ARE those WMD?  Probably in the terrorists' hands by now.  Thanks,
> >>GWB, the world is SOO much safer under your "watch", just like it was
when
> >>you "served" in the National Guard.
> >
> >
> > So, you are assuming their existence, then?
> >
> > I was watching the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, about the closest
> > approximation of actual news on broadcast television these days, and he
> > interviewed the two former CIA heads from Clinton's presidency. The
question
> > of "where are the WMDs?" of course came up, and the first fellow
explained
> > that not only did the Bush Whitehouse think Iraq had them, but so did
the
> > Clinton Whitehouse, the UN inspectors looking for them, and Russia,
Germany,
> > France, and Israel. He even suggested that with better intelligence, we
> > would have been even more convinced. However, it now seems that Iraq
lied to
> > itself a lot. Scientists claimed to be working on weapons programs, just
to
> > get funding. Iraqi generals were told, no, you don't have chemical and
> > biological weapons, but the divisions on either side of you do have
them.
> >
> > Greg Stigers
>
> Hmm, it sounds like Saddam was doing one of two things (and we are
> trying to find out which).
>
> 1. He had WMD and has hidden them very well.
> 2. He no longer had them but wanted the world to believe that he did
> (based on his actions).
>
> Not having WMD and wanting the world to believe that he did is the same
> as someone taking a very realistic looking toy gun, pointing it at the
> police and then crying 'foul' when they shoot you dead in self-defense.
>
> Either way, the U.S. did the right thing.
>
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