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• Wednesday, December 3, 2008 04:49 PM

  Saddam Was Attacked Because The Bush Gang Knew He Lacked a WMD Arsenal...

  They knew the inspectors had discovered the puported WMDs did not exist but by knowing this it guaranteed they would attack Iraq believing it would be "a cake walk slamdunk." W. Bush had long dreamed of the day when he would finish what his dad failed to do in 1991: topple Saddam's regime. He mentioned this to a biographer while governor of Texas. Mr. Dearlove of Britain's MI5 disclosed this agenda in the "Downing Street Memo." Later others such as Spanish Prime Minister Azera also wrote of this. We have seen politicians on both sides of the aisle make the excuse that the intelligence was faulty as their reasons for supporting the invasion. However, common sense should have prevailed when comparing such a policy to the one used against North Korea a nation which had a WMD arsenal at the ready. This proved to the world that the best guarantee that you will not be threatened or intimidated by nations possessing nukes if you also create a nuclear retaliatory capability. Daniel Ellsberg many years ago counted twenty-six threats by American poliiticians to use nukes. (Always against nations not having them.) France was insulted by correctly rejecting being drawn into the quicksand of the Mideast by writers such as George Will saying "How many divisions are needed to defend Paris?" Answer: "We do not know because it was never done!!" Mr. Will is no W. Bush as he does read history and knows the millions of soldiers France lost in their wars against Germany. Steve, World War 2

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