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FReeper help needed (Vanity)

Posted on 11/30/2005 10:40:01 AM PST by curtisgardner

I was wondering of there are any FReepers that can help me out a bit. I am doing a presentation in school on the justification of the Iraq war. I want to have some quotes from Clinton Admin. officials talking about the dangers posed by Saddam and his WMD's. Also, i want some numbers as to the types of weapons that we have found in different caches throughout the country since we liberated Iraq. If anyone has some links to articles or free republic threads that they could post, it would be very much appreciated. Also, if anyone has any ideas as to a few more things i could mention to really drive home the point, that would be very helpful. I am in a class of a bunch of leftists who hate this country (like every other college). I am not worried about abuse or anything like that, nor am i trying to egg them on, I just want to have some solid, irefutable facts to back up my justificaiton. Thank you all very much for your help!


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To: curtisgardner
House Joint Resolution 114

AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY
FORCE AGAINST IRAQ RESOLUTION OF 2002

21 posted on 11/30/2005 11:35:38 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: Lexington Green

All wars are but brakes on a world faced with runaway breeding; this is all inevitable and apparently immutable, it isn't so much that any one group, race or culture wants or seeks to outnumber the rest but merely the inevitability of what we laughingly call peace leads to too much leisure time and people resort to the ageless recreation of consorting with its obvious product: more people with too much leisure time.

Without war, this planet would have been overwhelmed centuries ago.

We don't associate in groups because we want to, we do it because we get bored.


22 posted on 11/30/2005 11:49:14 AM PST by Old Professer (Fix the problem, not the blame!)
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A great source of information is Richard Miniters book: 22 Media Myths that undermine the war on terror

discusses WMD has existed in Iraq and was there when we went in. 1.77 metric tons of uranium was removed after the war started in 2003... plenty of talking points.. but good luck getting anyone in a school to listen, they are all under liberal control.
23 posted on 11/30/2005 12:39:10 PM PST by Element187
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Saddam Planned Pre-war Attacks on U.S.!!!

link

24 posted on 11/30/2005 2:49:55 PM PST by Enterprise (The modern Democrat Party - a toxic stew of mental illness, cultism, and organized crime.)
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To: Element187; CasearianDaoist; headsonpikes; beyond the sea; E.G.C.; Military family member; ...
but good luck getting anyone in a school to listen, they are all under liberal control.
It is easy to be a liberal; it's a gutless choice.

Why is it the easy way out? Because the one thing that journalism sells is the idea that truth and virute are cheap. All of journalism shamelessly promotes the conceit that journalism is objective. Think what that means! Objectivity is a virtue, and it is arrogant to claim virtue. Yet journalists openly argue that you and I aren't objective, insinuating or saying outright that they are more virtuous than we are.

The people have been bombarded with a tremendous propaganda barrage all their lives, and they accept - many of us accept - the conceit of journalistic objectivity. Yet the truth of the matter is that journalism is simply arrogant and (with its deadline time pressure) superficial. Those are characteristics which lend themselves to negativity and bullying, not of objectivity and virtue.

The First Amendment does not say that journalism is objective; to the contrary it says that the government is not authorized to require that it be so. If anyone wants to claim that journalists are objective, the burden of proof logically falls on them to prove it. It is not for me to have to prove the contrary, they are the ones making the claim and they are the ones to bear the burden of proof.

But of course they won't touch that burden with a ten-foot pole. Because absence of bias is at best an unprovable negative. And because in fact the arrogant negativity of journalism is what defines the so-called "liberal" viewpoint.


25 posted on 11/30/2005 6:49:14 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU

Your take is spot on (as usual)

TT


26 posted on 11/30/2005 7:01:13 PM PST by TexasTransplant (NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Good post, and this thread has turned into a great resource also.


27 posted on 11/30/2005 9:24:06 PM PST by ForGod'sSake (ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

BTTT


28 posted on 12/01/2005 3:00:04 AM PST by E.G.C.
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