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Re: Oh wait--Rummy explains all in the 'sound bite' of the year...
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Sat, 7 Jun 2003 18:14:33 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
   Look, before the war there wasn’t ANYBODY who doubted that SH had WMD. It was a given; period. There is documented proof that he used them on the Kurds and killed them by the 100,000s for crying out loud! So all of this “where are the WMD” is so disingenuous it’s disgusting. Whether they all have been destroyed by the Iraqis already is entirely moot!

Not much of a memory, have you Mr. Neal? Many here doubted the WMD evidence from the first.

Oh, really? Then why was the UN sending weapons inspectors into Iraq in the first place? Not much of a memory, Mr Marchetti. They went to verify that weapons were destroyed, not to verify whether they existed or not.


   We

Who is “we”?


   all laughed at Colon Powell’s poor performance before the U.N. (there are even sources that claim he was angry at the doctored evidence he was suppose to present - tsk, tsk).

Cites? Or are you merely repeating rumor or wishful thinking?


   Dr. Arthur, Kooties, and myself (to name the few I am certain of) all questioned the veracity of the claims surrounding the issue of WMD.

We didn’t doubt that the U.S. had previously sold Iraq chemical agents, we doubted that they were still useful in terms of their limited shelf-life.


Please provide cites that those chemicals came from our government. I’ll bet you can’t because they didn’t. (but try checking France or Germany. William Safire wrote a blistering piece that attests to this fact)

  
   The main reason for going into Iraq was TO DEPOSE SADDAM HUSSEIN.


WMD was the sole criteria by which the war could be justified to the U.N., the world, and even the American people.

That is simply A LIE.

   BTW, where is Saddam? I’m so glad he was captured and brought to justice...

The point is that I know where he isn’t.


   Shrub made it sound like we were in imminent danger, and it’s becoming clearer that we were not. Deal with it.

We didn’t feel too threatened on Sept 10th, 2001 either. We will never know what unspeakable crimes we thwarted by deposing SH.


   Honestly, I am surprised they haven’t fabricated/planted the evidence! Maybe too many eyes are watching.

That only betrays the depths of your bigoted POV...

   11 Days from the day the war started I posted this: http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?n=20025


For crying out loud -- where are the WMD?

And what if we find them. What are you prepared to admit? Nothing, because you are a partisan hack.

  
Even I would prefer to think our president is better than this -- but it’s not looking really good right now. Do you think I want the U.S. to look like a criminal before the world?

Are you kidding me??? You and every partisan liberal would love nothing better than for GWB to come crashing down-- with or without the US in tow. You’d love for the US lead by conservatives to look as bad as possible in this time! Your dishonesty is sad.

   That’s why I opposed the war in the first place, the evidence was not in and did not seem very trustworthy. The last thing I want is to give people another reason to hate the U.S., terrorism is still very much an issue and this wag the dog story hasn’t helped -- it has perhaps hurt us irrevocably.


This is what you and other liberals just can’t seem to get-- the world hates us regardless of what we do. In the eyes of the world, we are in a lose-lose situation. Deal with that. It is not our job to please the world, but to preserve our Republic. The dirty little secret is that as we prosper, so prospers the world.

   I just hope that the people of the world understand that we U.S. citizens are just as much hostage to our leaders stupid decisions as they are hostage to their respective leaders’ stupid decisions. We mere voters are hardly in the “driver’s seat” of political power.

Spoken like a true patriot....not.

   Sadly, the many polls I keep hearing about put me in the minority.

Think about that for a moment.

   If the world believes the polls, most americans basically don’t care if the war was justified. I think Shrub is relying on that fact.

That’s because the reason was so painfully clear. SH was a madman who was in control of WMD and was sympathetic to terrorists. The solution was obvious. Remove him. We did. The Iraqis thank us. We did the world a service, whether they appreciate it or not.

JOHN



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(...) We sold them the goods. The goods have a shelf life. What weapons remained and were discovered were certainly no threat to the U.S. (...) Why should I have to repeat discussions that took place here a mere two months back? Do your own (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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(...) Not much of a memory, have you Mr. Neal? Many here doubted the WMD evidence from the first. We all laughed at Colon Powell's poor performance before the U.N. (there are even sources that claim he was angry at the doctored evidence he was (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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