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reply posted on 5-10-2004 @ 12:43 PM by Muaddib
If they lied, then the following people lied also.....before this administration...

October 10, 2002
Floor Speech of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
on S.J. Res. 45, A Resolution to Authorize the Use of
United States Armed Forces Against Iraq

In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members, though there is apparently no evidence of his involvement in the terrible events of September 11, 2001.


Even in 1998 the Clinton administration was saying the same thing....
Excerpted from.
clinton.senate.gov...

Democrats have cited the staff report to accuse Mr. Bush of making inaccurate statements about a linkage. Commission members, including a Democrat and two Republicans, quickly came to the administration's defense by saying there had been such contacts.
In fact, during President Clinton's eight years in office, there were at least two official pronouncements of an alarming alliance between Baghdad and al Qaeda. One came from William S. Cohen, Mr. Clinton's defense secretary. He cited an al Qaeda-Baghdad link to justify the bombing of a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan.

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The 1998 indictment said: "Al Qaeda also forged alliances with the National Islamic Front in the Sudan and with the government of Iran and its associated terrorist group Hezbollah for the purpose of working together against their perceived common enemies in the West, particularly the United States. In addition, al Qaeda reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda would work cooperatively with the government of Iraq."


Excerpted from.
www.washtimes.com...

We also have the following evidence...

"Iraqi intelligence documents from 1992 list Osama bin Laden as an Iraqi intelligence asset. Numerous sources have reported a 1993 nonaggression pact between Iraq and al Qaeda. The former deputy director of Iraqi intelligence now in U.S. custody says that bin Laden asked the Iraqi regime for arms and training in a face-to-face meeting in 1994. Senior al Qaeda leader Abu Hajer al Iraqi met with Iraqi intelligence officials in 1995.


Excerpted from.
www.techcentralstation.com...



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reply posted on 5-10-2004 @ 08:45 PM by Muaddib
Originally posted by shoo
What's the sense of your post?
It's not like we all don't know this information.


The anwser is simple, just like TrickmasterTrick said, the blame has to stop, because if you want to blame someone then you have to start with the previous administration and most of the world... Why do I keep bringing up facts? Because many members in these forums keep forgetting the past, and decide that they should keep trying to bash and blame only this administration.... When the blaming stops i will stop bringing up all these "facts."

And for your information Clinton did start a war with Iraq..what do you think happens when a nation fires missiles at another nation? even thou most of what those missiles hit were empty buildings or "supposedly" milk factories?

Didn't the Iraqi officials mention this was an act of war by the US on Iraq? Didn't Clinton start a coalition in 2000 to deal with Iraq? What Clinton didn't do, was send combat troops into Iraq, as well as he decided to ignore terrorism, among other things. He left that job for the current administration.

The failures that we have had up to today are not the fault of just one administration. Did this administration make mistakes? does any administration make mistakes? you betcha. But the intelligence failures, as well as the reason why Osama is still alive, rests not only on this administration, but the previous one as well. More so because they let go of Osama three times, when he was being given in a silver platter to the US. More so because the previous administration decided that terrorism was not an issue when we were systematically attacked, several times, by terrorists.

Whe need to find solutions. Choose the candidate you feel has a better chance to do this. The best choice to fight against terrorism... and if you want people to vote for who you think is the best choice, bringing up "useful facts" and debating the "issues" they stand for, is much better imo, than just bashing, and name-calling.

BTW shoo, you are the last person that should be calling anyone a kid with some of the stuff you have pulled in these boards... but of course, like always, instead of debating the issue, you have to resort to name calling...


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reply posted on 7-10-2004 @ 12:17 AM by ThichHeaded
Originally posted by Muaddib
Originally posted by hooligan13
I know I'm just a stupid stoner - but - didn't WE invent most of the WMD's everybody's screamin' about? Aren't WE the folks who used atomic weapons against non-military targets in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Man- it must be the smoke in my eyes cause I can't see the difference.


First off, there is evidence that there was a third terrorist in the OKC bombing with links to terrorist groups in the Middle East, there is one book on the internet that brings forth this information. I forget the name at this moment.

Second, althou Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a real tragedy, it was the response that the US thought was best back then to the surprise attack the Japanese did on the US. Japan committed an act of war, attacking Pearl Harbor. More than 2,400 servicemen and servicewomen were killed, and 1,200 were wounded. In 9/11 we lost more people than we lost in Pearl Harbor, and as the president said, we are going not only after those who made these atacks, but after those who keep harboring these terrorists and providing training/funds to commit more violent attacks.

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Plus that act on Japan was or could have been avoided, FDR knew 12 days before. So this statement well hold very little water. So if anyone killed those people at Pearl Harbor then it was the President then.

ohh yes forgot to add something for myself in here.

Like this is News we already knew about this in 2001 when they took office, the whole bush administration stated time and time again that Saddam was no treat to us.

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