King of the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56504-2004Jul16.html
To quote the relevant part of the article:
The toll on America is all the more galling because of how the
country went to war. We now know we were told a great many things that
turned out to be untrue. Bush administration officials, relying on
unfounded, distorted and exaggerated intelligence concerning weapons
threats, took the country down a path that has led to a catastrophic
waste of human lives as well as billions of dollars.
Let's consider just a few of the things that were conveyed as the gospel truth:
� "The Iraq regime is a threat of unique urgency. . . . [I]t has
developed weapons of mass destruction." President Bush, Oct. 2, 2002.
� "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has
weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to
use against our friends, against our allies, and against us." Vice
President Cheney, Aug. 26, 2002.
� "We said they had a nuclear program. That was never any debate."
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, July 13, 2003.
� "We do know that there have been shipments going into . . . Iraq . .
. of aluminum tubes that . . . are only really suited for nuclear
weapons programs, centrifuge programs." National security adviser
Condoleezza Rice, Sept. 8, 2002.
� "There is no doubt that he has chemical weapons stocks. . . . With
respect to biological weapons, we are confident that he has some
stocks of those weapons and he is probably continuing to try to
develop more." Secretary of State Colin Powell, Sept. 8, 2002.
� "The more we wait, the more chance there is for this dictator with
clear ties to terrorist groups, including al Qaeda, more time for him
to pass a weapon, share a technology, or use these weapons again."
Secretary Powell, Jan. 26, 2003.
A year ago we were told by a senior administration official that Iraq
could "really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon." We
now shell out more than $4 billion a month from the U.S. Treasury.
We were told last summer that the number of Iraqis signing up to fight
"numbered in the thousands" -- only to see Iraqi troops refuse to
fight at Fallujah and others switch sides, and hear military leaders
admit that that the Iraqi forces weren't ready for prime time.
<sarcasm>Nice to see that the administration admits to its mistakes</sarcasm>
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:43:39 -0700 (PDT), Sam Morris
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- Nick McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Are you suggesting that it was OK for us to go to
> > war because Saddam looked
> > but failed to purchase Uranium?
> >
>
> Hell yes!
>
> But that was just one of many reasons.
>
> -sm
>
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