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Re: WMDs and The Psychology of Fanaticism, part 2

Such anger, Jesk; tell me again, where are those weapons of mass destruction the Bush administration warned us about 935 times?

Please don't say that "every other county thought..." nonsense; as we all know, most of Europe didn't believe us and we now have "Freedom Fries" because of it.

So, if "curveball" was discovered to be a complete liar before the war began, why did we go into Iraq again?

I kept asking why we were headed to war when there was no "proof" of the President's claims. All I received from you were the same attacks.

"We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories. You remember when Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said, Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons. They're illegal. They're against the United Nations resolutions, and we've so far discovered two. And we'll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them." George W Bush
Source: Interview of the President by TVP, Poland, White House (5/29/2003).


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------This statement was misleading because it claimed the purpose of the trailers was to produce biological weapons without disclosing that engineers from the Defense Intelligence Agency who examined the trailers concluded that they were most likely used to produce hydrogen for artillery weather balloons.

"Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production."
Source: President Delivers "State of the Union", White House (1/28/2003).

This statement was misleading because it suggested that Iraq sought aluminum tubes for use in its nuclear weapons program, failing to mention that the government's most experienced technical experts at the U.S. Department of Energy concluded that the tubes were "poorly suited" for this purpose.
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