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Re: Fear and loathing in America

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From: Murray Cooper
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:14
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Gene Seibel wrote:
> We got no weapons of mass destruction.

The Bush administration swore (wink-wink, nudge-nudge) 
that Iraq had them, and that we would find them upon 
invading the country.

> That sounds like a good thing to me.

It is a good thing, indeed, unless you're a big-wig in 
the U.S. intelligence community.  It proves that the UN 
inspections were sufficient.

> Guess you think we should have waited until he got them built
> and lit one off?

The Bush administration said that Hussein ALREADY had 
them built; that he had stockpiles of them.

The administration:

a)  cynically lied
b)  didn't know what the hell they were talking about
c)  both

What's your guess?
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