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To: Diogenesis
Yeah but if this gets out... it will turn the Dems entire argument on its head! Clarke will be used as a source to SUPPORT GOING INTO IRAQ
20 posted on 03/22/2004 10:50:09 PM PST by Betaille ("Show them no mercy, for none shall be shown to you")
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To: Betaille
I agree with you on both.

Just dont think the media will cover the truth (again).

24 posted on 03/22/2004 10:52:10 PM PST by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us)
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To: Betaille; GeronL; Wallaby
It gets better:

To: Jim_Curtis; Miss Marple; Howlin; section9; aristeides; Nita Nupress
Clarke's theory?

Here's the relevant passage from the Washington Post story of January 22, 1999:

Clarke did provide new information in defense of Clinton's decision to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles at the El Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan, in retaliation for bin Laden's role in the Aug. 7 embassy bombings.

While U.S. intelligence officials disclosed shortly after the missile attack that they had obtained a soil sample from the El Shifa site that contained a precursor of VX nerve gas, Clarke said that the U.S. government is "sure" that Iraqi nerve gas experts actually produced a powdered VX-like substance at the plant that, when mixed with bleach and water, would have become fully active VX nerve gas.

Clarke said U.S. intelligence does not know how much of the substance was produced at El Shifa or what happened to it. But he said that intelligence exists linking bin Laden to El Shifa's current and past operators, the Iraqi nerve gas experts and the National Islamic Front in Sudan.

Given the evidence presented to the White House before the airstrike, Clarke said, the president "would have been derelict in his duties if he didn't blow up the facility."

Clarke said the U.S. does not believe that bin Laden has been able to acquire chemical agents, biological toxins or nuclear weapons. If evidence of such an acquisition existed, he said, "we would be in the process of doing something."

(Excerpted from "Embassy Attacks Thwarted, U.S. Says; Official Cites Gains Against Bin Laden; Clinton Seeks $10 Billion to Fight Terrorism," Vernon Loeb, Washington Post, A02, January 23, 1999.)
184 posted on 03/22/2004 10:31:41 PM EST by Wallaby
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26 posted on 03/22/2004 10:53:00 PM PST by Howlin
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