--- Jon Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't have friends in Iraq. Why does that matter? > Gautam, what exactly > is the point you're trying to make with this last > sentence?
The point is to guard against the inevitable next argument - that I don't care about the American soldiers who are dying. I do care, deeply. But that doesn't make the deaths evidence of failure. > > >But that isn't exactly a > >catastrophe. If Bush had really been lying, then > it > >would not at all be unpatriotic to criticize him. > > Criticize him?!? If Bush had really lied to > Congress so he could initiate > an unjustified war, it would be more appropriate for > us to push for his > *impeachment* and felony prosecution under US law. > Time will tell. I would say that it already has told plenty, actually. The nuclear weapons plans _by themselves_ were a gross violation of the UN sanctions. > > I'm still glad Hussein's gone. Well, good. It puts you one up on Howard Dean, apparently. > > By the way, we're still waiting for evidence to turn > up of the materials the > President mentioned in his State of the Union: > > 25,000 liters of anthrax > 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin > 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agents > > Evidence of these and other weapons (or of their > destruction) would provide > proof to the world that Hussein and his regime had > violated UN resolution > 1441 -- the original reason we went to war. Right > now, the only evidence > that's been released seems to have been minor > violations. > > Jon All of these materials, though, were listed _by the UN_ in their reports. That wasn't confidential material that people could accuse Bush of making up. That was stuff that _everyone agreed_ the Iraqis had. At most you can say that every intelligence agency on the planet was fooled. Arguing that Bush lied based on that is simply dishonest. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
