baltodemvet
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Mon Oct-25-04 09:29 PM
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Did the war in Iraq make us safer? No.
Saddam was ruthless but he would never have handed over 380 tons of explosives to terrorists. Bush did.
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The Jacobin
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Mon Oct-25-04 09:31 PM
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1. But those may be CIA numbers |
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Remember them? They got so much wrong that the estimate of the amount that was in the cache is probably wrong too.
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Mon Oct-25-04 09:33 PM
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were documented by the inspections. They were contained. The bush administration was warned to keep guard on this stockpile as they stumbled toward war.
->Inspections were working ->The war is not working
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Mon Oct-25-04 09:37 PM
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3. No, U.S troops in March 2003 just before going into Bagdhad.... |
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...confirmed that the full compliment of HMX were still there. That's documented. Welcome to DU!
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BayStateBoy
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Mon Oct-25-04 10:38 PM
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4. Maybe Bush Should Ask the Wolves if They Took the Explosives? |
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Mon Oct-25-04 11:22 PM
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5. The CIA was mostly right on their estimate |
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of wmd's in Iraq before the war. The Office of Special Plans cooked that intel to match what they wanted so they could invade Iraq. Don't misunderestimate the CIA.
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