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the americans knew about the wmd systems iraq used during the iran iraq war because they sold many of those systems to iraq.
the americans said nothing about the gassing of the kurds when it happened--only later did the right begin to feign horror----later when it was convenient for other political purposes to feign horror.
the linkage between those events and the present war is totally specious--it leaves about the un inspections regime--in order to erase the fact that the bush administration did not have a case for war, that they failed to persuade the security council of its case, that the majority of the security council was simply not convinced by the "Evidence" bush's team presented, and was convinced by the case put forward by hans blix and al-baradi--which is not surprising, if you think about it--the entire bush case has turned out to be false---and it was obviously false at the time, even to people who were not in a position of power, with access to classified sources.
the link between hussein and terrorism is also not proven--if anything the contrary is the case.
the supporters of the war have nothing to stand on at this point--not a single element of their justifications for unilateral action holds even the slightest water.
i am amazed that the debate still goes on on this thread--the poitns above are not questions of belief---they are simple matters of fact. i do not understand why the right, why those who support the war, simply cannot acknowledge the reality their boy bush has put them in.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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