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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
yes it is.
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No, it wasn't. 1-0.
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I'll give you this one. 77-4
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Woo hoo! 2-0.
You are either playing on semantic distinctions, or you are misinformed -- I can't tell which. Read Blix's book, or
this review of it. When the war started, Blix had found no WMD anywhere he had looked, believed inspections were working, and wanted to continue. The Bush Administration vilified him, personally, and told the inspectors to leave. If you think that "everyone" was in agreement about the state of Iraq's putative weapons programs, I'm not sure I can help you anymore. 3-0.
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goes to motive- why would the UN believe he had them, but still not vote to tak them?
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The UN has no sanctions against many other countries which possess WMD -- e.g., the US, UK, France, Russia, Israel, Pakistan, South Africa, etc. 4-0.
I didn't realize that you were giving yourself a victory every time you agree with someone about something. Now that I understand, I've decided to keep score, too. 5-0.
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I KNEW we hadn't found anything, I think you knew that. How was it inconsistant? I honestly never got why you think that meant anything. The statement "you know, we haven't actually found anything." That does not differ from anything I heard, or knew. Most of the time the inspectors were kicked out, and I didn't expect he'd let them find anything if it was there.
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When -- for example -- Colin Powell went before the UN with the "proof" that Iraq had WMD, "everyone" understood that the Administration was telling the world that it had access to information that the rest of us didn't have, on the basis of which it thought Iraq had WMD. We were supposed to trust Powell (and Powell did the talking because he seemed trustworthy). In retrospect, Powell has let us know that the intel he was given was weak, and that he scrapped portions of the presentation he was given because he didn't believe.
But you now claim to be a Cassandra. I wish you'd let everyone in on it. The Administration was busy telling everyone that Iraq had WMD, and it would have been nice if someone other than Blix had pointed out that no one had found anything.
Meanwhile, you are confusing
my point about what Franks told Bush. On September 7, 2002, President Bush told reporters, unequivocally, "Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction." If you can't see how that "differs" from what Franks told him, you should turn in your license to practice law.
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