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Monday, 09 August 2004 |
Today on Meet the Press when confronted with the current casualty count in Iraq - 924 dead, 6,087 wounded - and asked if the war in Iraq justified the loss this is how Dr. Condoleezza Rice responded:
"Now, it is true that stockpiles have not been found in Iraq, but I think we've gone all the way over to the other side in assuming somehow that Saddam Hussein was not a weapons-of-mass-destruction threat. Of course he was."
Huh? Don't you have to posses WMDs before you can credibly threaten to use them?
She then persisted by trying to link Iraq to the September 11th plot:
"On September the 11th, we were brutally attacked by people who had an ideology of hatred so great that they, with a few people, threatened to try and bring down our way of life."
The terrorists couldn't have imagined in their wildest dreams their actions would result in another 924 lives and thousands wounded, the loss of constitutional freedoms to the patriot act, and the burden of financing a war on our economy.
When Tim Russett pointed out no connection has ever been found between Iraq and terrorism against America, she responded:
"There is no linkage between the plot of September 11 and Saddam Hussein's regime that we see. But I think it would be wrong to say that there is no linkage between what happened to us on September 11 and the instability and lack of hope and lack of freedom in the Middle East. And Saddam Hussein's regime was one of the prime elements in that kind of Middle East. Now, we have a chance to build a different kind of Middle East."
Before America invaded Iraq, no American had ever been killed by an Iraqi terrorist. The majority of the September 11th hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, none of them were from Iraq. And if her statement is true, American policy would justify invading anywhere a lack of hope and freedom prevails. How about most of Africa, China, North Korea, or downtown Detroit?
A lack of hope and freedom is not the same as harboring terrorists. Seeking to posses WMDs and is not the same as possessing WMDs. A gathering threat is not the same as an imminent one. Saying something is so does no make it so. Don’t fall for the spin.
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