[vbmoneyspender]

Why is Fleischer doing backflips in order to deny obvious Iraqi involvement. I'm start to get really pissed about this, particularly given that the gov't is leaking false reports to Bob (I Can Speak to the Dead) Woodward that right wingers are involved.

[Jaded]

They have a point, making it and buying it to distribute are two totally different things. Just because Iraq has made it and sold it, it doesn't make them guilty of using it for terrorist activities in the US. It is the same argument the Gun makers have. Now, if they prove Hussein is directly behind distribution/terrorism in the US, then lock and load, it's play time in the sandbox.

[sbelew]

I'm hoping the links to the (com)Post are deliberate misinformation to spread some confusion as to what our next move will be - AND, as a bonus, to make Woodward & company look as silly as a monkey fornicating with a football.

If this isn't what's afoot, then I'm a little nervous.

[Sabertooth]

"Why is Fleischer doing backflips in order to deny obvious Iraqi involvement?" He doesn't want to deny the obvious, he wants to delay it, at the President's instruction.

We have to delay...

The Showdown with Sadaam.

How do we know it's delay and not deny?

Because we keep hearing from President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld that this war is going to last years. I don't think so... not in the Afghanistan Campaign it isn't.

So there's more. Recall the deal we just cut with Iran, allowing for our pilots to crash-land in their territory, and they would do humanitarian rescue. Between the lines, that means we're getting use of their airspace, since only if a pilot is shot down there would anyone know we were there. This gives Iran a built-in out against the radicals if this should happen,

Why are we doing this with them? Not for Afghanistan. This is for Iraq, whom Iran hates. Remember that during the Gulf War in '90-'91, Bush the Elder neglected to bring Iran into the coalition, and Sadaam pulled off a deal to stash the bulk of his air force in Iran just prior to Desert Storm. Dubya isn't repeating that mistake, and Iran recognizes that a bio, chem ,and possibly nuke-capable Sadaam isn't in their long-term or short term best interests.

So why delay, and not strike?

In addition to the logistics abroad, consider:

We're under bio-attack. A biological WMD has been used against us, on American soil, for the first time in our History. In world History.

And these aren't really attacks. They're advertisements. We know Sadaam has more than anthrax letters in his arsenal. He has better anthrax with better delivery systems, smallpox, VX gas, and no one in our government can say for sure that he doesn't have nukes. He's letting us know that his arsenal is already here. We need time to stop what's brewing here, because it isn't pretty.

9/11 wasn't his best shot. He's got a knife to our throat. That's why we're being goaded into this war.

Sadaam Hussein is holding cards that we don't want him to play, so we try to crack as many of the sleeper terrorists as possible before striking Iraq.

That's why we're delaying....

Momentarily.

[okie01]

"...particularly given that the gov't is leaking false reports to Bob (I Can Speak to the Dead) Woodward that right wingers are involved."

Note that Bob Woodward's "government sources" are never identified. Leading me to believe that Deep Throat has been resurrected. Or that Woodward's making it up as he goes along...