WP: President Revises Rationale for War

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President Revises Rationale for War
Bush, Cheney Stress Iraq's Capabilities

By Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 8, 2004; Page A04

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President Bush and Vice President Cheney yesterday said the war in Iraq was justified because Saddam Hussein COULD HAVE MADE weapons of mass destruction. (emphasis added)

The new rationale offered by the president and vice president, significantly more modest than earlier statements about the deposed Iraqi president's capabilities, comes after government experts have said it is unlikely banned weapons will be found in Iraq and after Bush's naming Friday of a commission to examine faulty prewar intelligence.

"Saddam Hussein was dangerous, and I'm not just going to leave him in power and trust a madman," Bush said yesterday in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" that will be broadcast today. "He's a dangerous man. He had the ability to make weapons at the very minimum."

Bush addressed himself to relatives of the more than 500 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq. "For the parents of the soldiers who have fallen who are listening, David Kay, the weapons inspector, came back and said, in many ways Iraq was more dangerous than we thought," he said. "We are in a war against these terrorists who could bring great harm to America, and I've asked these young ones to sacrifice for that."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22301-2004Feb7.html

[Democrats unite]

1. I want to Puke everytime that asshole opens his mouth!

:puke:

[Nay]

2. Me, too. What a couple of slimebags.

[stepnw1f]

3. Bush Co

[saigon68]

10. CHIMPANZEE REWRITES HISTORY

Just change the plot.

Change the cast;.

You are getting sleepy

Nothing to see here!!!

[salinen]

5. What?

He had no WMD's. This is getting sillier. Now pre-emption has degraded to someone who we think might someday get angry and do something we don't like. This prevarication logic applies to many of us who say nasty things about this administration.

[Snappy]

11. It's time.

The Neo Fascists should be indicted for war crimes. The rational they used for invading a sovereign nation was a lie and they should face trial for murdering innocent people.

[stromboli]

4. rover

just wait til we discover oil on mars (in case you're wondering why bush is pushing for mars and moon exploration) and we declare war on every nation with a terrorist space program.

[nankerphelge]

6. ???

It seems like that if Hussein could have made WMD, but didn't have any, it would have been good to let the inspectors that were there do their job.

[Jack Rabbit]

12. But Saddam didn't let the inspectors in

. . . at least that's what the Frat Boy says now.

A year ago, after Saddam let them in, all the talk was, "He knows how to hide and deceive; we know he's got weapons; of course they're not going to find any; the inspectors are a bunch of boobies; the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

Are we supposed to forget that now? Will anybody who remembers that have his patriotism impugned?

[rustydog]

7. Man, My sigline is becoming more relevent every day!

I think I'll keep it.
The lying bastard needs to spend time in a Texas jailhouse.

[Jack Rabbit]

8. Horsepucky

If I believed everything Bush was saying a year ago, I would have thought that Saddam was ready to launch a biochemical attack on Saudi Arabia, Iran or Israel. I didn't think that was the case then; I was right. If I thought Saddam had any banned weapons at all, those thoughts vanished in the early hours of the invasion when, faced with a superior military force massed on his border, he didn't use them. What was stopping him? His usually sensitive conscience? His well-documented humanitarianism?

For the parents of the soldiers who have fallen who are listening, David Kay, the weapons inspector, came back and said, in many ways Iraq was more dangerous than we thought.

In the light of the case that Bush and aides unsuccessfully attempted to make against Saddam, how can Bush say that Saddam was more dangerous then he made him out to be? That is simply ludicrous. The Bushies were saying that Saddam was immanent threat; now they are saying that maybe he was an intermediate threat. Even if that is true (as if anything Bush says should be taken on faith), an immanent threat is still more dangerous than an intermediate threat.

Bush lied. He is now obfuscating in an attempt to cover up for those lies. Saddam was a paper tiger and Bush knew it.

[madrchsod]

9. i`ve asked these young ones

to sacrifice for that" yes something he was unwilling to do when he was faced with death.coward

[Lithos]

13. Locking

Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=352430