Hoot said:
Congress debated the question at length and authorized the invasion of Iraq. The only thing they left to the president was to choose the time and date.<<Fantasea
For the last time, Congress DID NOT have access to the same intelligence that the Bush White House used to justify war. If they had seen the same intelligence, Congress never would've given Bush the authorization.
The Bush Administration picked and chose only the intelligence they wanted to use to justify war with Iraq...ignoring our own NIE estimate of the threat from Iraq and the IAEA which stated there are no WMD in Iraq.
We were all lied to.
Read it and weep.
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Exposing Democrat Campaign Rhetoric, Part 2
By JB Williams (09/02/04)
The list of baseless DNC propaganda is long and growing. In the first of this series, I dispelled the myths regarding which party is owned by special interest groups, Democrats by more than a 10 to 1 margin, and which party was built on playing dirty politics, again Democrats. Part 1 of the series can be viewed at
www.JB-Williams.com recent articles page.
In this segment, I want to address two of the BIGGEST lies being told by Kerry and the DNC.
Campaign Myth # 3 – Bush “lied” about WMD in Iraq.
Fact – The existence of WMD in Iraq was never in question. The world knew Hussein had them, because he had used them.
Fact – Combined US intelligence provided more than satisfactory evidence to support our suspicion that Hussein was continuing to develop and conceal WMD, particularly in those 4 years of no inspections pre 9/11.
Fact – WMD are NOT just a stockpile of nuclear warheads. It is any weapon that can be used to cause mass casualties, or mass destruction of property. A hand gun is NOT a WMD because it can only be used to kill one person at a time.
Fact - Harmful chemical and biological agents are a special type of WMD because they only have one purpose, to cause mass casualties, and they can be weaponized by advanced methods, on the tip of a warhead, or any number of low tech methods such as sent through the mail, or blown through a ventilation system, sprayed over a community, or dropped in your favorite local buffet.
Fact – A lunch box full of the right material deployed in a densely populated area can cause the death of millions of innocent civilians. It can be easily transported, almost entirely undetectable and impossible to combat or remedy once released.
Fact – Hussein had demonstrated a willingness to use these types of weapons in the past, including against his own people.
Fact – Every reliable intelligence agency in the free world offered additional supporting evidence that Hussein was continuing to develop and conceal WMD, including French, German and Russian agencies.
Fact – More than 75% of all US congress men and women, including the two prior administrations, John Kerry, John Edwards, Teddy Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, Dick Gephardt, Hillary Clinton and others made the exact same case concerning WMD in Iraq as Bush. If Bush “lied”, then they all “lied”. (Kerry’s statements on Iraq can be viewed from the home page at
www.JB-Williams.com )
Fact – Chemical, biological and yes, radioactive materials have in fact been found in Iraq since the removal of the brutal Hussein regime.
Fact – It’s NOT, nor was it ever a stockpile of long range nukes that we were concerned about in Iraq. It was the thermos full of easily concealed, transported and deployed materials that we were then, and remain now, concerned about ending up in the hands of a terrorist sleeper cell in the US.
Fact – On September 11, 2001, four passenger jets were converted into WMD causing the single largest body count in any one day in US history.
Fact – Nobody “lied”, they all made the same case, and they were all right.
Campaign Myth # 4 - Iraq was a mistaken departure from the war on terrorism.
Fact – September 11th forever changed how we view the world of threats to our American way of life, and our willingness to wait for the threat to materialize on American soil.
Fact – Terrorism was growing in frequency and reach throughout the 90’s as a result of our reluctance to confront the world wide problem directly. 9/11 was planned in the mid 90’s, and carried out more than 6 years later by a determined, innovative and patient enemy.
Fact – A connection between the Hussein regime in Iraq and Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan was made in 1998, evidenced in the 9/11 Commission Report on page 66.
Fact – Multiple Middle Eastern terrorist organizations have worked together and supported each other for decades. Though their motives and goals often vary, they have always operated under the theory that “my enemies’ enemy is my ally”.
Fact – Hussein had a long history of supporting and funding outside terrorist organizations and activities in the region, and there was no evidence to suggest that Al Qaeda would be any different.
Fact – Iraq presented a unique target of opportunity in the war on terrorism. (a) Iraq presented an opportunity to draw all terrorist organizations in the region into a central battlefield and theater of operation away from American soil. (b) The maneuver presented an opportunity to enforce formal US policy of regime change established by congress and the Clinton administration during the 90’s. (c) It presented an opportunity to develop over time a reliable free nation that would become a US ally in a region of the world that had been war torn for centuries.
Fact – Regime change in Iraq was NOT a departure from the war on terrorism, it was a flanking move in the war on terrorism. It was a calculated maneuver, one that has had immediate benefit, and will have long range benefits in the war on terrorism and the ability to secure the region and our nation in the future.
Many Americans don’t get any of this, and there are at least a few reasons why.
First, for security reasons we don’t share every detail of what the war plan might look like, how it is being implemented, or how it might change as the fluid nature of any war develops.
Second, it has been a long time since America has been at war anywhere, and we have never faced this type of enemy before, and never on our own soil.
Last, in a country where everything has political implications, great efforts have been made to intentionally mislead the public on this and many other topics.
If every American fully understood what I just presented, would any politician be able to run against this President?
In the next segment of this series, I want to move to domestic issues. Most important of these issues is our current economic condition, and jobs.
So I will address campaign myth # 5 – Bush has wrecked the US economy, and # 6 – Bush has been outsourcing our jobs.
Before Election Day, I hope to expose every DNC lie and present the facts on each issue to the American people.
John Kerry will get X number of votes from the “anybody but Bush” crowd no matter the mountain of evidence against that. But I trust most Americans can still recognize truth when they see it.
