> I don't recall that, but at the same time I don't doubt it either.
>
> However, the President stated that if you are a known supporter of
> terrorism, then you are a target in the war on terrorism. The war on terror
> was in response to people flying planes into buildings.
But the response of attacking Iraq was trumped up. From the interview
with Clarke:
--
"Clarke then tells Stahl of being pressured by Mr. Bush.
"The president dragged me into a room with a couple of other people,
shut the door, and said, 'I want you to find whether Iraq did this.'
Now he never said, 'Make it up.' But the entire conversation left me
in absolutely no doubt that George Bush wanted me to come back with a
report that said Iraq did this.
"I said, 'Mr. President. We've done this before. We have been looking
at this. We looked at it with an open mind. There's no connection.'
--
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/19/60minutes/main607356.shtml
> We know Saddam supported terrorists. The number of Palestinian suicide bombs
> seems to have gone down considerable sense Saddam was removed from power,
> leading me to conclude there was a direct correlation between Saddam and
> terrorist attacks occurring in Israel and the West Bank, and that by
> removing a main source of money to these groups has made it harder for them
> to commit these acts which further destabilize the region.
And that's nice that reported Palestinian attacks are down.
Unfortunately overall terrorism is up and a report that came out this
year showed that the Bush administration cooked the books to make it
look like it had gone down.
> Like I have always said, there were valid reasons to remove Saddam Hussein;
> our President was just not able to get those reasons across to the American
> People.
There are lots of reasons to remove lots of leaders. The case against
Saddam, when WMD and 9/11 fall flat, are that he was a bad man who
killed his own people. Saddam is reported to have killed about 300,000
in the span of 30 years. That works out to 10,000 a year. We've killed
between 11,143 and 13,096 civilians. If Saddam was bad, then what are
we?
I'm not saying that Saddam was justified in his actions. I'm saying
that we're not justifying ours.
-Kevin
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