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Originally posted by BobbyMike
If you weren't so gosh darned serious about this you would be laughable. Your assumption that Bush lied is your own. Having been in the military I know that intel can be wrong. Bush used that example once, and never again. He didn't use it when he was talking to Iraq, and the world, on the eve of the war. Your fixation on that piece of intel, which the British say was NOT based on the forged documents - is understandable because of your prior view on the war.
This is what you seem to be saying:
A man was spotted leaving his ex-wifes house covered in blood, wearing jeans, running shoes and a black tee shirt with a gun in hand, by a long time neighbor. She is found dead several hours later, killed by shots fired from a 9mm pistol. The ex-husband had been arrested and indicted several months prior to this for assaulting her (and had served time for man-slaughter after killing his brother in a fight). He had been overheard numerous times saying he was going to kill her (and others). The DA reports He had reportedly bought new pistol ammo in the same caliber several weeks before.
The ex-husband says he is innocent and refuses to allow police to search his farm. By the time they get the appropriate warrants (a week later) his registered 9mm pistol cannot be found, neither can a black tee shirt (he had been seen multiple times in the past by many witnesses wearing black tee shirts), nor his running shoes.
On the other hand, his prints were all over her house, he had no alibi for the time of the slaying, his car had been ticketed a block away during the time of murder, and most interestingly she had traces of his skin tissue under her nails. I won't mention the shallow grave with the 16 unidentified bodies found in his basement.
The DA issues a warrant for his arrest and he is killed in a gunfight with police.
Later it is found that the report of his buying 9mm ammo is wrong.
The DA is roasted by the press for unfairly hounding this poor defenseless citizen and causing his demise.
That's a nice story, however, it misses the point I made in the beginnig of this thread. In your story, the real question would be: Why did the police claim in an official statement that the suspect had tried to buy 9mm ammo, while actually knowing that this claim was false? That casts a strange light on the whole investigation, no? I don't blame the Bush administration for getting some information wrong, I blame them for using information they knew it was wrong (had every reason to believe it was wrong, had no reason to believe it was true).
Regarding Iraq/Saddam/Bush your story is highly misleading. The question never was whether Saddam is guilty, a criminal, a killer, a monster, etc. The question was: does he still have WMD? Before the war, the answer of the Bush/Blair admistration alway was "Oh yes, absolutely, loads of them, he can use them within 45 minutes, we have proof, etc. ..." Now that they are there, all of this has suddenly evaporated.
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07-12-2003 12:33 PM
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