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Originally Posted by aceventura3
This, in my view is a focus on the trivial. If Bush had 1,000 pages saying Sadam was a threat and Congress had 999 pages saying he was a threat, you can say he lied, but the real point is that Sadam was a threat and everyone interested had enough information to draw an informed conclusion.
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except this isn't what happened.
that's why you're confused, you don't know the facts.
it's a reoccurring theme with you
Congress didn't have access to the pages because the administration claimed they were too sensitive for their consumption. therefore they didn't have enough information to draw an informed conclusion on, and voted their conscious which was that they would trust the administration's view of the evidence before
them (the administration) rather than risk the threat being described to them (Congress).
the analogy is if I came to you and told you that I knew one of your employees was plotting to kill you. but if I let you see the evidence I had, it would compromise the safety of the operation that gave me the information. and you wanted to think about it and talk it over...but I told you that it's happening with or without you, this guy is going to kill you in the morning. you have to shut your business down today, right now.
you can either ignore me at your peril, or follow my advice and hope I'm not misrepresenting or misreading the evidence I am relaying to you.