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On 2007-07-01 19:29:45 -0400, Mike Smith <mws@wt.net> said:

> On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 13:31:49 -0400, Slim <slim@pickins.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2007-07-01 09:17:14 -0400, Mike Smith <mws@wt.net> said:
>> 
>>> On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:48:31 -0400, Slim <slim@pickins.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Bush said Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11/
>>>> 
>>>> Remember?
>>> 
>>> Thanks for posting more proof that you ARE a fuckin moron.
>>> In your demented brain, not having anything to do with 9-11 equals no
>>> threat to our Nation. You are a fool.
>> 
>> 
>> No, you blathering moron.
>> 
>> Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11 AND IRAQ WAS NO THREAT TO US.
>> 
>> "AND" in the operative word here. Watch some Sesame Street to learn 
>> what "AND" means.
>> 
>> IRAQ was never a threat to America.
>> 
>> Get you head out of Leroys ass and see that the threat WAS and CONTINUES to be
>> Saudi Arabia. Bin Laden and his family are SAUDI. 19 of the 21 9/11er's 
>> were SAUDI.
> 
> You are truly delusional. Thanks for posting more proof of that.

Both Colin Powell, US Secretary of State, and Condoleezza Rice, 
President Bush's closest adviser, made clear before September 11 2001 
that Saddam Hussein was no threat - to America, Europe or the Middle 
East

In Cairo, on February 24 2001, Powell said: "He (Saddam Hussein) has 
not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of 
mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against 
his neighbours."

This is the very opposite of what Bush and Blair said in public.

Powell even boasted that it was the US policy of "containment" that had 
effectively disarmed the Iraqi dictator - again the very opposite of 
what Blair said time and again. On May 15 2001, Powell went further and 
said that Saddam Hussein had not been able to "build his military back 
up or to develop weapons of mass destruction" for "the last 10 years". 
America, he said, had been successful in keeping him "in a box".

Two months later, Condoleezza Rice also described a weak, divided and 
militarily defenceless Iraq. "Saddam does not control the northern part 
of the country," she said. "We are able to keep his arms from him. His 
military forces have not been rebuilt."


-- 
"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in 
England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after 
all, IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it 
is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a 
democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist 
dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to 
the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL 
THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of 
patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY 
COUNTRY."
�
--Goering at the Nuremberg Trials