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"Auld Chiel" <ac@keech.net> wrote in message
news:Ka4isnNoMorn560@keech.net...
> Completely frustrated by their inability to belittle, sneer at or
> just plain falsify about the victory of our troops in Iraq, opponents
> of the president are now reduced to using bits and pieces of non-
> evidence to contend that we did not have to replace the brutal regime
> of Saddam Hussein.
>
> The current version of their attempts to find a campaign issue goes
> like this: The president should not have "alleged" in his January State
> of the Union address that Iraq had sought to buy uranium in Africa.
>
> In fact the president did not "allege" this. He correctly reported that
> the British government had learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought
> significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
>
> That we have not yet located huge deposits of weapons of mass
> destruction does not mean they do not or did not exist. After all,
> we have not yet found Saddam Hussein or his remains--but not even
> Democratic presidential candidates or the New York Times contend
> that he did not exist.
>
> from:
> http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110003765
>

"It must be remembered that the absence of evidence is not evidence of
absence."
 ~ Randall Price, quoting Carl Sagan who quoted it without attribution
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