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Re: FOUND: Weapons of Mass Destruction
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Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:58:57 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
   From Dubya’s own carefully fact-checked SOTU address:

As part of the offensive against terror, we are also confronting the regimes that harbor and support terrorists, and could supply them with nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.

I’ve been skeptical of his claims that he’s really concerned with getting at the roots of terrorism or of really confronting the regimes that allow such terrorists to live within those nations’ borders, but now I see the first glimmerings that the War on Terror might be working, as shown here.

First of all, nobody with the knowledge of what they were up to was “allowing” them to live in the US. As soon as they were discovered, they were arrested.

   No doubt this story will receive all the coverage it deserves in the coming weeks, since it speaks volumes about the ideological climate of a region that would foment such anti-American hatred.

Is this last part meant as a joke? Are you inferring some sort of aspersion on Texans? Southerners? What exactly do those volumes say?

JOHN



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  Re: FOUND: Weapons of Mass Destruction
 
(...) But if they'd posed a threat to, say, Cuba instead of to the United States, would they have been arrested at all? And, anyway, that's not the point. All day, every day, we're bombarded with so-called "breaking news" reports about the latest (...) (21 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
  Re: FOUND: Weapons of Mass Destruction
 
(...) Rubbish. Its all in the spin. Read the article. The dude had been 'discovered' before, there had been a half hearted enquiry that had been dropped for reasons unspecified. Of course the authorities were not 'allowing' them to live in the US. (...) (21 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  FOUND: Weapons of Mass Destruction
 
From Dubya's own carefully fact-checked SOTU (URL) address:> As part of the offensive against terror, we are also confronting the regimes that harbor and support terrorists, and could supply them with nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. I've (...) (21 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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