to many times to believe anything he says. His latest
story time tale was to sell a book.
-sm
--- Kevin Graeme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 13:50:40 -0400, Nick McClure
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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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