- The Bush administration adamantly insists that Iraq has
weapons of mass destruction, but despite 12 years of inspections, bombings
and spying, it doesn't have a clue as to where they are.
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- It frequently warns us of terror attacks, but always
says it doesn't know where, when or how. Nor have there been any terror
attacks in the United States in the past 18 months.
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- Is it any wonder that millions of people around the world
and in the United States don't support President George Bush's personal
crusade to topple Saddam Hussein? Keep in mind that after the Sept. 11
attack, which Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with, virtually the entire
world united in sympathy with us. Never has one president destroyed so
much support by so many people in so short a time.
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- The fact is, the people in the Bush administration who
want to go to war with Iraq wanted to go to war with Iraq before Sept.
11. As a matter of fact, they wanted to go to war with Iraq before George
Bush was even elected president. That's a matter of record. This war against
Iraq has nothing to do with disarming Iraq and nothing to do with terrorism.
It has to do with the United States creating a situation in which it and
Israel will dominate the Middle East and its oil resources.
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- The thing to remember about these alleged weapons of
mass destruction is that nobody in the Bush administration or with the
United Nations has ever laid eyes on them. What exists is a discrepancy
between two numbers in reports - both supplied by the Iraqi government.
One report stated that so many chemical bombs were used; another report
had a different number. And the Iraqis are certainly right in that nobody
can prove a negative; you can't produce for inspection what you don't have.
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- I personally don't know if these weapons exist in Iraq
or not. I do know they exist in many other countries. I do know that in
the Gulf War, Iraq did not use any chemical or biological weapons, even
when it was being routed from Kuwait and "bombed back into the preindustrial
age," to use an American phrase. I do know that in the 12 years since,
Iraq has not used any chemical or biological weapons, even though it has
been subjected to the harshest economic sanctions in modern history and
to practically regular bombing. I do know that in the past 12 years, Iraq
has not threatened, much less attacked, any of its neighbors, while during
that the same period of time we have attacked Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan,
Iraq and Yugoslavia. I do know that every one of the "neighbors"
George Bush claims Iraq is a threat to has said repeatedly that it does
not feel threatened by Iraq.
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- I do know that the only leader threatening the world
with nuclear weapons and pre-emptive attack is George W. Bush. It gives
me no pleasure to point that out. But it is not the role of an American
citizen to be a sheep. It has become apparent that those of us who supported
Bush made a mistake. I'm beginning to believe that a philanderer and a
liar is less dangerous than an upright but ignorant man who thinks God
has appointed him to rule the world.
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- The best way to support our troops is to try to prevent
the Bush administration from sacrificing their lives for the hidden agenda
of the crazy neoconservatives in his administration. Young Americans should
not die because a bunch of chicken hawks have a cockamamie idea that they
can bring liberal democracy to the Middle East by making war. That's like
trying to sell pork barbecue in Mecca. What the president is intent on
doing is committing a crime against humanity. If he goes through with it,
he'll have to change his ritualistic "God bless America" to "God
forgive us."
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