Posted on 06/13/2006 3:49:46 PM PDT by fuyb
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
bush made it wrong
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“[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq’s refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.” Letter to President Clinton, signed by: — Democratic Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others, Oct. 9, 1998
“We were misled”
By whom????
Did anyone present any part of the case based on anything they KNEW AT THE TIME was not true?
No.
So, who “misled” Kerry?
The same man who misled everyone, Saddam Hussein.
Sadda,’s strategy was - as far as information circulating in the intelligence communities - to prevent total transparent knowldge by the international inspectors, so they could not come to definitive conclusions, while providing not only the suspicisions that the inspection processs alone left, but additional misinformation to again lead to suspicions that his opponents and neighbors WOULD believe that, contrary to all his denials to everyone, that many of his weapons programs WERE intact. Saddam wanted just enough lack of evidence and just enough suspicion that real clarity on this issue could not be obtained.
The entire point to Saddam was for him to quit all the subterfuge and just totally come clean, in a way that would give any inspection process confidence it had been able to reach definitive conclusions; in order to avoid any necessity for us to use force to find all the answers. Saddam denied that possibility. He wanted to publicly deny his programs were active, while leaving anyone who might engage Iraq militarily to believe they were still active.
Saddam misled everyone.
But Kerry is simply a liar if he is trying to say that anyone in the U.S. administration misled him.
Is he also trying to say that it is a mistake that Iraq is not a nominal democracy, too?
There. I fixed it.
I was a conniving opportunist then, and I am one now. But there were no opportunities created for me by voting yes,so I was wrong to do so. Oh, and there are those dead people who speak some weird language I don’t understand. I suppose that would have happened no matter what, so that’s a good rationale for a mea culpa. It shows that I really care.
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