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Re: I think the 1st Ammendment was broken
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Wed, 11 Jun 2003 18:33:22 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
Apathy on the part of hopeful americans and back-peddalling on the part of the
president -- with everyone behaving like the members of a dysfunctional family
until all the annoying skeletons in the closet just go away...
Under-Fire President Waters Down Claims on Iraqi Weapons
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0610-02.htm
PRESIDENT BUSH insisted yesterday that US forces would reveal that Iraq was
pursuing weapons of mass destruction as he tried to douse growing doubts about
the credibility of American intelligence.
“Iraq had a weapons programme. Intelligence throughout the decade showed they
had a weapons programme,” Mr Bush said. “I am absolutely convinced, with time,
we’ll find out that they did have a weapons programme.”
However, he stopped short of his previous assertions that Iraq’s weapons of mass
destruction had posed an imminent threat. Nor did he say that the United States
would uncover biological and chemical agents.
Instead, he sought to justify the invasion of Iraq on humanitarian grounds,
saying: “History in time will prove that the United States made the absolute
right decision in freeing the people of Iraq from the clutches of Saddam
Hussein.”
His comments came as the White House was forced on the back foot on several
fronts, with the use of US intelligence to justify the war under growing
scrutiny.
-- Hop-Frog
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| (...) A weapons programme and WoMD are not the same thing. Canada has a weapons programme somewhere, I'm sure--our armed forces must have some sort of hardware for their job. Telling a country that they can't have a weapons program?? Telling Iraq (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| Just as I can't yell "Fire!" in a theatre causing undue panic, when there was no fire, Dubya cannot yell "Clear and imminent danger" and incite us into a "terror driven frenzy" which caused the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians, untold (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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