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Does anyone know how reliable this source is?

particularly since the threats from Iran and Iraq which it was meant to deter are no longer considered to be potent.

If the Iragi's move 1 tank column toward Kuwait and Saudi Arabia ,You will see all the little pampered princes' and their families and servants jetting their little a$$e$ over to Europe faster than you can imagine.

Saudi Arabia should be on the target list.

Bush said last year that 2002 would be a year of war. Today, he told us that he has decided to remove Saddam Hussein. On the evening of 9/11/2001, Bush sat down with his advisers. They concluded that Saddam Hussein was most likely the ultimate author of the destruction of the WTC and the attacks on Washington, DC. They concuded that, given the only WMD at his disposal was anthrax, he would probably threaten to unleash anthrax attacks on the United States, should we attempt to point the finger at him for the attacks. Cheney and his staff were put on Cipro and moved to a secure location that night. The team then turned their attention to what could be done in the short term, while preparations were made for America's defense against Saddam's anthrax arsenal. They identified destruction of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network -- Saddam's accomplices, and low-hanging fruit in the war on terrorism -- as objectives that could be achieved in the relatively short-term, on a time scale of a few months, so they made those the key notes for the public face of the war on terrorism. They also concluded that Saddam's buddy, Yasser Arafat, would have to go, but that that would have to be an intermediate-range objective, given that the Clinton administration had imbued Arafat with an aura of respectability, in its pursuit of a Nobel Peace Prize for Clinton's mantlepiece -- a talisman to ward off the self-doubts and recriminations of Clinton's old age. While these secondary efforts were pursued, Bush enacted the most far-ranging action feasible under the circumstances in pursuit of Saddam's sleeper cells, including a system of secret miltary trials for terror suspects. He massively increased the budget for measures designed to contain the threat of bioterrorism, brought the anthrax vaccine program online again, initiated a crash program to develop anthrax decontamination technology, and ordered a huge ramp-up of smallpox vaccine production, just in case. Working fist-in-glove with Israel's president Sharon, he conceived a plan to neutralize Arafat by turning him into a hostage -- a prototype for the capture and hostage-ization of Saddam himself. He directed the FBI to stall the media as to the source of the anthrax, but gave the US's staunchest ally, Great Britain, a good look at the reality we are facing. Unprecedentedly, Blair's government openly warned Saddam that it was willing to undertake a nuclear first-strike if Saddam used biological weapons on the West. The public have been conditioned to expect an attack on Saddam, but they are also expecting this to take many months to put together -- which it will. Nevertheless, at the end of the day, Saddam will rue the day he ever chose to tangle with the United States. He will spend the rest of his days as a hostage to fortune, a caged animal. Death would have been more appropriate, but let us not complain too much. The important thing is that he be removed from the equation. We still cannot predict whether World War III, initiated by Saddam on 9/11/2001, will end up taking the lives of millions, or whether it will be a relatively straightforward win against the forces of evil. But the ultimate victor is not in doubt. Thank you, George W. Bush.

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