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To: .30Carbine
I don't know what to say to that. If I were a liberal, I'd call myself one.
102 posted on 05/11/2004 3:07:44 AM PDT by ggordon22
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To: ggordon22
"Sorry, this is simply not accurate. I'll just point out three things here: "

* those reasons were not cited from the very beginning. The WMD justification came out in 2001 or 2002, well before the 'humanitarian' justification. But none of that matters, because...

Well, this isn't true, the humanitarian reasons were cited as far back as the January 2002 "Axis of Evil" speech. If you want to know when WMD became an issue, well, you'd have to go back to 1998, when every single Democrat swore up and down in every bit as much detail and "imminence" as Bush that he had them. But Bush first mentioned Iraqi WMD -and- humanitarian abuses at pretty much the same time.


"* there were no WMDs."

Logical fallacy: Absence of evidence is not evidence of absense. To this day, I cannot understand on what logical basis liberals simply dismiss that huge convoy that we tracked going into Syria just as the war started, as if it couldn't possibly have had anything to do with it. Or how they explain those thousands and thousands of chemical suits we found.

* Saddam wasn't linked to Al Queda.

In order to believe this, one would have to ignore vast reams of evidence of exactly those links. These links, by the way, were reported extensively by media outlets such as the NY Times, Washington Post and others in the months between October and December of 2001. Piles have been added since then. You are at the proper site to educate yourself on them. Just do some searches.

Qwinn
104 posted on 05/11/2004 3:31:39 AM PDT by Qwinn
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