From: Sam Morris
To: CF-Community
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: The Election and The Economy
> It's no surprise that weapons buried in Iraq have yet
> to be uncovered. "Seven-eighths of the country is arid
> desert and it's the size of California. You could
> probably bury 100 Empire State Buildings in Iraq and
> not find them," the former Marine said.
Oh, then I guess ground-penetrating radar is just a myth.
> > If we can invade Iraq why not Syria if he knows "for
> > a fact".
> It was more than WMDs and the Saddam problem went on
> for years. Syria is on the Axis of Evil list and we
> know they support terrorism, but we're going through
> the process of diplomacy. If democracy in Iraq works
> out maybe Syria will do what Lybia did and turn over
> there WMDs.
> > 2.) Since we've never recovered WMD, wasn't the war
> > a mistake? We
> > said there were WMD, we went to war because of it,
> > but we've never
> > found any.
> No. Here's what Bush said recently in an interview
> with Limbaugh:
> Now, Iraq. You see, one of the lessons of September
> the 11th is that we gotta deal with threats before
> they fully materialize, and we saw a threat in Iraq. I
> say "we." The Congress saw a threat, I saw a threat
> and the United Nations Security Council saw a threat.
> In other words, the world took a look and said,
> "Saddam is a threat," and here's why they thought he
> was a threat. One, he used weapons of mass
> destruction, and one of the most dangerous parts of
> this new war is that if the enemy were ever to acquire
> the capacity to use a weapon of mass destruction it
> would make September 11th, you know, pale in
> comparison, and so we saw that threat.
> Secondly, he had ties to terrorists. Abu Nidal was
> housed in Iraq, his organization. He was the guy that
> killed Leon Klinghoffer. He was a known terrorist.
The Achille Lauro was hijacked by Abu Abbas but I guess if you think the PM of Canada is named Poutine then anything goes.
> Zarqawi -- who's now, you know, the person beheading
> people in Iraq today -- was in and out of Baghdad and
> Iraq, as were members of his organization. So he had
> terrorist ties. As a matter of fact, not only did he
> have terrorist ties, he used to subsidize families of
> these suicide bombers, which is a terrorist act.
There are terrorists in the US - does that mean that we should be invaded?
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