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To: Pokey78; All
And then we bombed with the British for four days in 1998. We might have gotten it all; we might have gotten half of it; we might have gotten none of it. But we didn't know

Look, this says it ALL.

Bush said, in effect..."We will march to Baghdad and LOOK for the WMD we expect to find."

Clinton said, in effect..."We know enough about their EXACT LOCATIONS to program GPS targeting info into the Tomahawks and the 'Smart Bombs.'

Think about it...if Clinton didn't have the targeting info, then he spent MILLION$ shooting at the Desert.

I know how cynical and mendacious Bill Clinton is and was...yet I don't believe he lacked specific target info.

After all, he hit the Afgan al Qaeda training camps, and that Asprin factory in Khartom.

19 posted on 10/10/2003 9:32:52 PM PDT by Lael (Bush to Middle Class: Send your kids to DIE in Iraq while I send your LIVELIHOODS to INDIA!)
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To: Lael
I know how cynical and mendacious Bill Clinton is and was...yet I don't believe he lacked specific target info. After all, he hit the Afgan al Qaeda training camps, and that Asprin factory in Khartom.

It was a rush job. That's what happens when the military planning cycle is trumped by the news cycle.

However, on the larger picture of Saddam and WMDs, just about everyone believed he had them and he never gave us a single reason to trust him - and the Kay report justifies that cynicism. The Dems months ago laid the groundwork for discounting the Kay report, as if they knew something like it would be coming out (and some probably used leaked preliminary intel to structure this approach). Remember that about six weeks ago Dems all over the place starting saying that Bush claimed the threat from Saddam was imminent - when Bush said nothing of the sort, and instead had asked if we should wait until the threat was imminent? If Saddam had a just-in-time approach for chemical and biological weapons, the threat would not be imminent - it would take him a few months to create agents - so it was necessary for the Dems to distort Bush's position. The just-in-time WMD approach is much more in line with the type of threat that Bush was talking about all along.

50 posted on 10/11/2003 12:00:33 PM PDT by dirtboy (Cure Arnold of groping - throw him into a dark closet with Janet Reno and shut the door.)
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