Dan Minette wrote:
I went back over the archives....you appeared to not want to say what your opinion was.
I took my time making up my mind.
Tue Jul 29 23:34:29 PDT 2003
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I've realized that there's a strong emotional component to this for me, which I suspect is shared by many others who grew up in the 60s. I had nightmares about nuclear war, lots of them, as a child. I can remember the Cuban missile crisis, vaguely, and certainly remember all of the fear in our country, the people building bomb shelters, etc. We practiced "civil defense drills" at school and our basement was a fallout shelter. As a result, Bush's mention of the possibility of Iraq with nuclear weapons touched a nerve. The idea of those nightmares arising again was one of the things that brought me to reluctantly support the war, and by no means a minor reason. Raising the specter of nuclear terrorism certainly was effective, which makes the omission of the rest of the story all that more egregious.
When manipulation of intelligence can make its way into the State of the Union, it is very hard to imagine that it isn't being manipulated in many other areas, too. As I read the coverage of this issue, I see more and more evidence that that's exactly what's been going on.
Nick
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