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Originally posted by RawAlex@Aug 3 2004, 09:36 AM
Mike, you keep forgetting that the "dot" that Bush connected to get the american people onside with attacking Iraq was the terrorist dot. Nobody BUT Bush and his immediate group ptu that dot there, they did so to create the public opinion for the war in Iraq.
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I think the "dot" was WMD's and the fact that Saddam was a threat in more ways than one which is a simple matter of fact. The degree of the of the threat is the only debatable issue and that argument is increasingly a matter of partisan politics.
No one bought the idea that saddam was a "terrorist threat" and that was NEVER the main topic of conversation leading up the war. it was just one small issue of many. and in case you forgot, Saddam did in fact support terrorism, there were in fact Al Queda connected training camps in Northern Iraq, world famous terrorist Abu Nidal did in fact live in Bagdad, Suicide bombers in Palestinian areas were in fact offered 25K USD for family members etc etc etc. So lets not compare Iraq and Saddam to Disney World and Mickey Mouse.
Almost everything you say about the US assumes that 260,000,000 people are idiots. Thats pretty offensive.