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To: MizSterious; honway; rubbertramp; Wallaby; Fred Mertz; aristeides; TXnMA; SharpEye; Plummz
my nomination for post of the day from MizSterious:

Wonder if they'll find another mural depicting the OKC bombing

12 posted on 03/27/2003 6:40:54 AM PST by thinden
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To: thinden; The Great Satan; Fred Mertz; Betty Jo; Alamo-Girl; swarthyguy; Shermy
Fascinating paragraph from Nicholas Lemann's article in this week's New Yorker, HOW IT CAME TO WAR When did Bush decide that he had to fight Saddam?:

“Then, in the immediate aftermath of the eleventh, not that much changed. The focus was on Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda. Some initial attempts by Wolfowitz”—Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense —“and others to draw Iraq in never went anywhere, because the link between Iraq and September 11th was, as far as we know, nebulous at most—nonexistent, for all intents and purposes. It’s somewhere in the first half of 2002 that all this changed. The President internalized the idea of making regime change in Iraq a priority. What I can’t explain to you is exactly the process that took us from the initial post-September 11th position, which was, Let’s keep the focus on Al Qaeda and Afghanistan, to, say, nine months later, when Iraq had moved to the top of the priority list for us. That’s a mystery that nobody has yet uncovered. It clearly has something to do with September 11th, and it’s clearly consistent with the President’s speech about weapons of mass destruction in the hands of rogues, people with a history of some terror—but, again, how it exactly happened, and what was the particular role of Cheney, among others, I wish you well in uncovering.”

13 posted on 03/27/2003 7:56:47 AM PST by aristeides
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To: thinden; MizSterious
Wonder if they'll find another mural depicting the OKC bombing

I second the nomination. Thanks for the flag.

25 posted on 03/27/2003 11:23:25 AM PST by honway
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