Dan wrote:
If you would like to argue against these points, then we can discuss
that. If not, then I don't see why a reasonable person, even one who
considered
any claim by the Bush administration as highly suspect at best, would
conclude that it was obvious that Hussein had no WMD.
It should have been obvious that he _did_ have WMDs and that those WMDs
were a threat to us before we went to war. It was not, and in retrospect,
it wasn't even close.
Whatever evidence there was before Bush and 911 should have been
thoroughly vetted before sending our kids into harms way. Instead,
sources with self serving interests were given undue authority and
evidence that supported the administration's agenda was publicized while
evidence that did not support them was ignored and suppressed. The press
was manipulated. They used inflammatory rhetoric to frighten us and
belittle opponents of the war.
And then, even when they had a team of inspectors in country checking
anywhere and everywhere where Bush directed them, they found nothing but a
few old artillery shells.
And by the way, Gautam did not work for PNAC, he tried to get on with them
but found that they had no funding or some such. And he can pooh-pooh
them all he wants, it doesn't take away from the fact that they wrote down
their agenda years before 911.
Motive and Opportunity, Dan, its all there.
--
Doug
GCU Guilty as Charged
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