Re: Pat Robertson Goes Off the Deep End

On 24 Aug 2005 05:11:28 GMT, AC <mightymartianca@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:05:37 GMT,
>Bob <wf3h@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 23 Aug 2005 16:41:30 -0700, "Noone Inparticular"
>><unreve89@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>No matter that the pre-war justifications were wrong (I disagree with
>>>your conclusions about the WMDs but that was not what I meant by
>>>"selective") or whatever the current justifications for the war are, it
>>>is a fact that the only reason we pay *ANY* attention to Iraq -now or
>>>in the past- is because of its oil. It otherwise is of no strategic
>>>consequence to us. None. Nada. Zilch-a-rino*.
>>
>> i agree that countries having oil get alot of attention. no one would
>> have cared if iraq had invaded kuwait if kuwait didn't have oil.
>>
>> but it's incorrect to state the only reason we pay attention to iraq
>> is oil. we invaded because we THOUGHT, as the rest of the world did,
>> that iraq had WMD's.
>
>What's this "rest of the world" nonsense. The rest of the world did not
>think that there WMDs.

france and germany certainly did.

In fact, it sure looks like US and British
>intelligence didn't think there was any either.

there was, apparently, alot of discussion about the reliability of
intelligence. unfortunately the wrong side won.


The UN weapons inspectors no
>longer thought that Iraq had WMDs, they said so, and were sluffed off by an
>Administration that had already decided to go to war no matter what.''

well, what the inspectors said was they needed more time to finish the
job of inspections. blix said so in his march 2003 report.
>
>Perhaps someday the US will finally have a political system gutsy enough not
>just to toss liars out of office, but to prosecute them no matter how high
>their office. Bush, at least, ought to be impeached for lying to Congress
>and to the United Nations

i think if clinton had been president, given the fact congress
impeached him for getting a blow job in the oval office, they would
have impeached him for this. bush has been given carte blanche for
anything because he's got a republican congress.
>
>But under no circumstances try to impeach the rest of the world

tell it to chirac.

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