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- Good Lord. We've gone from Saddam's possessing the most
badass WMD and being an imminent threat to the cosmos, to his having merely
"intent" to.....??? At this rate of backpedaling, before the
Summer rolls around, Powell will be talking about how the war was necessary
because Saddam used to pull the wings off butteflies when he was five years
old. Or perhaps it will be that his mother ate too many chillies when
he was in the womb! A real threat to society, he was, that eeevill Saddam!
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- Whenever these puppets have their mouths open, know that
you can expect only drivel to come out!
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- Powell Defends Decision To Go To War In Iraq
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- WASHINGTON - Regardless
of whether Iraq had stockpiles of banned weapons, Washington would probably
have decided to invade Iraq anyway because of its ''intent'' and its weapons-making
ability, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday.
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- ''I think it was clear that this was a regime with intent,
capability and it was a risk the president felt strongly we could not take
and it was something we all agreed to and would probably agree to it again
under any other set of circumstances,'' Powell told reporters.
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- The Bush administration's main justification for invading
Iraq in its first preemptive war was to eliminate the threat from President
Saddam Hussein's banned weapons.
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- But the man President Bush appointed to lead the search
for the weapons, David Kay, said late last month he believed there were
in fact no stockpiles of weapons.
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- Powell, who made a dramatic presentation before the United
Nations to detail the U.S. intelligence about Iraq's weapons program before
the war, said, ''The only thing that is even being discussed right now
is what stockpiles were out there.''
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- He noted that the intelligence surrounding the existence
of those weapons was to be investigated by a commission Bush is setting
up.
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- ''But the bottom line is this: The president made the
right decision. He made the right decision based on the history of this
regime, the intention that this leader -- terrible, despotic leader had,
and the capabilities at a variety of levels -- the delivery systems that
were there, and there's nobody debating that, the infrastructure that was
there, the technical know-how that was there,'' he said.
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