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Subject:	Re: How many things need to stack up before we throw this jerk out?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Fri, 11 Jul 2003 18:54:05 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Petrucelli wrote:

We know he has/had WOMD (we gave most of them to him, idiot politicains from before, but that is a whole seperate issue.)

I’m not clear why this is unrelated -- it seems very related to me, and also an obvious example of the U.S.’ very poor foreign policy as a whole. The other issue is shelf-life: it is my understanding that most of this stuff has lost its usefulness and that this is a fact well understood by all. So again, the “imminent” threat just evaporates before our eyes.

BTW, do you care to name those other idiot politicians?

Does it surprise me that the Bush team fabricated half the story, no. Every politican throughout history has done the same thing to garner public support. Today in the world of mass media they can’t really get away with stuff like that anymore.

I’m not prepared to let anyone off so easily -- not on a matter of great national and international importance. If we can roast a president over the coals for a private sexual affair, I think we can then roast a president for causing a war under at least several false pretenses.

Whether he gets away with it remains to be seen. How did McCarthy pay for his crimes against the state?

But why does idiot politicians doing what politicians do, make people think there was not even the slightest threat at all?

The distinguishing word here is “imminent.” Absent an “imminent” threat a peace option was preferred by everyone except those that profit from war.

-- Hop-Frog

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		Re: How many things need to stack up before we throw this jerk out?
(...) All of them. I hope in my lifetime all the politicians are gone and we reinstate the use of representatives. (...) Yeah but when over half the population believes the story and now "feels safe" you might as well bide your time. (...) Ok the (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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(...) You assume that because the U.S. doesn't know where stuff in Iraq is that the Iraqi leadership did not know where the stuff is. Simply not finding anything is not proof that there is/was nothing to find, it only means we haven't found it. We (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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