Oh, yeah and the Global Crossing matter is sooo important I can hardly turn on the tv without hearing about or pick up a newspaper without having multi-page front page stories about it. NOT. It is completely irrelevent to anything. Even the nutjobs are not trying to tie it to Bush unless they are spelling it Haliburton. Talk about a non-starter. Perle's resignation is of no importance other than as an indication of how a patriot did not allow the RATmedia any chance to get at Bush using something of no significance whatsoever.
You are spreading falsehoods about Bush's statements as to why we went to war. He NEVER said Iraq was an imminent threat. Do you believe everything DU claims? What WAS significant was that it was Terror Central and did not show that it had gotten rid of the weapons which THE ENTIRE WORLD BELIEVED HE HAD not just "the intelligence community." Even his own generals thought he had them. It is still not clear that he didn't. It took years after the first war before they were found and that only happened because his sons-in-law defected and told the UN. However, anyone who has even a slight degree of knowledge of these matters understands that many of these are binary and are not kept around ready to use but become so after mixing. We found plenty of shells for bio/chem payloads for artillary as well as for missiles. We found protective suits for his military and plans and components for all manner of prohibited weaponry.
Thousands of Kuwaitis were killed by the Iraqis, many were kidnapped and taken to Iraq and imprisoned for years. So you can take your Saddam Rehabilitation Project elsewhere it won't go here. Propaganda is used in war and there was some of it used in 1990 but nothing that changed anything. We were not going to allow Saddam to vastly increase his power by taking that country as a stepping stone before invading Saudi Arabia. Only irresponsible and ignorant fools would comptemplate such a thing such as John Kerry and Pat Buchanan.
Perle's comment about intelligence is hardly a blockbuster. No one believed we had great intelligence capability in Iraq. Much of the perceived danger was precisely because our agencies had been weakened, compromised and thoroughly undermined by your RAT allies. However, we did not depend on our agencies entirely in any case. They agreed with all the others such as the French, Iranian, Italian, British, German. But the point is that Saddam had to show he had destroyed them and he refused to do so. And as a result he sits in a jail unable to torture, murder and maim at his pleasure. I am sure that distresses you greatly.
There will be no scapegoating because it doesn't even matter except to the Bush haters and RAT lovers. Bush's actions were correct and he would do it again in a heartbeat. Terror Central is no more and the Islamaniacs across the world realize that unless they can dislodge us from Iraq their time in coming to an end.
True, but some Republican critics have Perle in their sights. Fed up with his constant advocacy of war with Iraq, Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, who volunteered for Vietnam and earned two Purple Hearts, suggested
"Perhaps Mr. Perle would like to be in the first wave of those who go into Baghdad." --- U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel (R), Nebraska
Are you going to tell me that Chuck Hagel is an "anti-Bush" RAT ally," too?
Hagel, for the record, served in Vietnam as a volunteer.
Let's go back and look at the military record of Admiral Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr. I post these whenever his name comes up because I am utterly in awe of his service record -- he makes John Kerry look like a child in comparison:
Combat Action Ribbon
Purple Hearts (2)
Air Medals (2)
Bronze Stars (5)
Silver Stars (3)
Distinguished Flying Cross
Navy Distinguished Service Medal
Dept. of Defense Distinguished Service Medal
Navy Cross
I'm starting to see a trend here. I'll tell you exactly what drives people like Hagel and Denton crazy: They are sick and tired of having U.S. military affairs dictated by these Ivy League policy-wonk hacks who would sooner eat a dump truck full of sh!t than put on a military uniform.