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Edwards Lied!
| Sat, 07-10-2004 - 6:04pm |
"I think Iraq is the most serious and imminent threat to our country."--John Edwards, "CNN Late Edition," Feb. 24, 2002
He is the person who called Iraq an "imminent" threat. Not Bush


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"The lady doth protest too much."
Edited 7/13/2004 3:36 pm ET ET by mrsed4
I know what I saw with my own eyes, and they said 'no one in the senate' was able to get some of the sources. But believe what you want, like the rules never get broken, and everyone can get any information they want, and pigs can fly...
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from: palak
to: britogal3
date: 1:38 pm
The 9/11 commission said that saddam declined to helped AQ.>>
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from: mrsed4
to: palak
date: 1:45 pm
Thank you for reminding us of that. Funny how the facts are forgotten when they don't work in their favor.>>
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"The lady doth protest too much."
"Baghdad has chemical and biological weapons as well as missiles with ranges in excess of U.N. restrictions; if left unchecked, it probably will have a nuclear weapon during this decade."
That conclusion was repeated over and over again by top administration officials, including President Bush, as the No. 1 reason to launch a pre- emptive attack on Iraq. It contributed heavily to Congress' strong support for a war resolution.
Now, after three months of mostly futile searches for such weapons, there is growing doubt that the statement is true.
As in the Vietnam War a generation ago, policy-makers are reluctant to make statements that might be interpreted as questioning an action in which so many lost their lives. At least 187 Americans, 37 Britons and thousands of Iraqis have already been killed in the fight to disarm Iraq.
CREDIBILITY QUESTIONED
Yet as Congress begins a high-stakes investigation this week into the intelligence that justified the attack on Iraq, even some who stood behind Bush are openly questioning his administration's credibility.
"Either the intelligence was an utter, massive failure -- or even worse than that, the books were cooked and there was a preconceived decision to use military force," said Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Walnut Creek, and one of only two Northern California Democrats who voted to give the president authority to go to war last fall.
"We were told directly that (Hussein) was an imminent threat to this country, and we had to change our long-standing policy and wage a pre-emptive strike," Tauscher said. "And now we find that we weren't being given the full picture. . . . I was certainly misled about Iraq being an imminent threat."
You can read the entire article at
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/15/MN276843.DTL
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