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For those of you who don't work for the government the issue may have been a slam dunk, we have to go to war with Iraq, even though they did not attack us. However the evidence presented by the government did not show the entire intelligence that was presented to guys like Dick Cheney.
Do you remember when those so-called tubes that were supposed to be for nuclear reactors were shown on TV and the Government presented this as evidence Iraqi's were dabbling with WMD again?
I hope you all remember that, those tubes are a huge issue. The Department of Energy at that time said those tubes were not and could not be used for nuclear weapons. THEY WERE TOO SMALL. Any one who knows anything about reactors knows this, the big guys at the Whitehouse, knew, they knew it, the Dept of Energy Scientists informed them, the Navy scientists knew as well, because you know they work around and in reactors all the time. That information was never released far and wide and the press because they have no real background in science, particularly in nuclear reactors, they never really presented the information that was out there. I work with these scientists every single day, they never believed what the government was saying, they knew it was a lie.
Other facts:
at the same time we were ready to go to war in Iraq over so-called WMD there were radioactive plumes that we detected coming off the shores of NKorea. None of that was happening in Iraq. It isn't easy to hide these reactors, additionally, why weren't we worried about NKorea? Hmm those are things that make you think, only if you know what you are supposed to be thinking about!
The information and the evidence was out there, people didn't want to listen did they, they just wanted revenge, revenge against anyone. Bush and his enablers convinced an already scared electorate of so-called facts, that weren't facts but twisted information. This population does not have the scientific background to analyze the situation and they believed what they were told. That does not absolve Bush and his cronies from what they did, they did make up shit to take us to war. I don't blame the public, how the hell would they know. I do blame Bush who ought to be in jail for lying to the country. He should have been impeached. I do blame the democrats for not doing their job.
