The Choice Between Action and Inaction in Iraq

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[truthfinder9]

Fri, 10 Oct 2003

Important: War on Terror! Americans have a choice. The Choice Between Action and Inaction in Iraq

President Bush, Vice President Cheney and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice discussed protecting the American people from the terrorist threat in three important speeches this week.

"American cannot retreat from our responsibilities and hope for the best. Our security will not be gained by timid measures. Our security requires constant vigilance and decisive action. I believe America has only one option: We must fight this war until the work is done," President Bush said.

Critics question the administration's pre-emption policy, but offer no solution for dealing with the threats facing our nation. Vice President Cheney made clear the choice that President Bush has made, "As long as George W. Bush is President of the United States, this country will not permit gathering threats to become certain tragedies."

President Bush's decision to act in Iraq has not only made America safer, it has liberated an oppressed people. President Bush said, "Who can possibly think that the world would be better off with Saddam Hussein still in power? Surely not the dissidents who would be in his prisons or end up in mass graves. Surely not the men and women who would fill Saddam's torture chambers, or the women in his rape rooms. Surely not the victims he murdered with poison gas. Surely not anyone who cares about human rights and democracy and stability in the Middle East. There is only one decent and humane reaction to the fall of Saddam Hussein: Good riddance."

Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs

"We have discovered dozens of WMD-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations during the inspections that began in late 2002." - The Interim Progress Report on the Activities of the Iraq Survey Group (ISG)

In just three months, the U.S. weapons inspection teams led by David Kay have made important discoveries, including:

· A clandestine network of biological laboratories and safehouses maintained by Saddam Hussein's Intelligence Service.

· A prison laboratory complex, possibly used for human testing of biological agents.

· "Reference strains" of biological organisms concealed in scientists homes, including a live strain of deadly botulinum, and new research on Brucella, Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever, ricin, and aflatoxin.

· Advanced design work on prohibited longer range missiles and covert capability to produce illegal SCUD missile propellant.

· Newly documented links between Iraq and North Korea with documents detailing Iraq's attempt to buy equipment from North Korea to make missiles with ranges of up to 1,300 kilometers a clear violation of the UN Resolution limiting Iraq to missiles with a range of 150 kilometers or less.

· Systematic efforts to sanitize or destroy documents, computers, equipment, and other materials related to WMD work.

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[Sacajaweau]

I have no doubt that we did the right thing. Anyone who sees Saddam as being kept in check by the UN inspections should be reminded that they hadn't been there since 1998 and that Saddam was lying through his teeth and taking advantage of the "time" provided as the inspectors "negotiated" with Saddam about the renewed inspections.

P.S. Had I had only 5 minutes of warning, my mother would never have caught me smoking. :-) :-(

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