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" do you also think we should invade the Congo and Zimbabwee?" -------------------------------------- We're gonna let the UN take care of that problem and bring peace to the countries....... while whatching a couple million more people die. Ever wonder WHY Iraq was at war with Iran..... then took over Kuait...... then, if we weren't there, were on their way into Saudi...... and from there, every arab country in the region. My goodness..... we did something good for the world, and because we didn't find WMD in five minutes, we're bashed. What happened to the three Iraqi ships that were circling in radio silence and why were they out in the middle of the ocean and what was their cargo? What were in the convoy of trailer trucks that went into Syria two weeks before the war started? I think a thread here yesterday was about Powell's veiled threat to Syria....... that we know what's there..... and they can be good guys and do what we ask, or align themselves with Hamas. I think those were his words. Iraq was out to literally conquer the Arab world, and now we face other evils that thankfully, for whatever reason our administration chooses to publicize, we'll do things about them. Especially since the UN is not a player in these conflicts anymore.

5 minutes? Try more than a month of unrestricted access. They may well find WMD though this is a bit puzzling since Rumsfeld was so sure that he had "solid intelligence." On what basis did he make such claims of certainty? Doesn't the failure for the search of site after site to pan out and Wolfowitz's comments make you wonder? Where is that old Freeper skepticism?

Face it. The evidence is building that allegations of WMD was trumped up as an effecitve scare tactic to "scare" conservatives. Clinton did the same thing in 1998 when he used the scare tactic of alleged genocide in Kosovo.

Politicians will always pick the justification that sells. That is simple common sense whether with Clinton or Dubya. Unfortunately for Dubya, the "real" probable reason we went to war (creating a pro-U.S. counterweight to Saudi Arabia and taking the pressure off Israel) didn't play in Peoria.