From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Then he's massively incompetent. What's worse?


"Mark"  wrote in message
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> So what Rich? That's all on the record, by many more than those you quote,
> and none of it has a thing to do with the false BushLied(tm) theme.
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:437cbe76{at}w3.nls.net...
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>> "Mark"  wrote in message
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>>> What a Twilight Zone. The BushLied(tm) theme is no more true today than
>>> it was when the Dems first started floating it. It's been disproven
>>> early and often:
>>>
>> http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WMDlies.html
>>
>> Dick Cheney
>> Speech to VFW National Convention
>> August 26, 2002
>> Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of
>> mass destruction.
>>
>> George W. Bush
>> Speech to UN General Assembly
>> September 12, 2002
>> Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for
>> the production of biological weapons.
>>
>> Ari Fleischer
>> Press Briefing
>> December 2, 2002
>> If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once
>> again misleading the world.
>>
>> Ari Fleischer
>> Press Briefing
>> January 9, 2003
>> We know for a fact that there are weapons there.
>>
>> George W. Bush
>> State of the Union Address
>> January 28, 2003
>> Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials
>> to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.
>>
>> Colin Powell
>> Remarks to UN Security Council
>> February 5, 2003
>> We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass
>> destruction, is determined to make more.
>>
>> George W. Bush
>> Radio Address
>> February 8, 2003
>> We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized
>> Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons  .
>>
>> Colin Powell
>> Interview with Radio France International
>> February 28, 2003
>> If Iraq had disarmed itself, gotten rid of its weapons of mass
>> destruction over the past 12 years, or over the last several months since
>> (UN Resolution) 1441 was enacted, we would not be facing the crisis that
>> we now have before us . . . But the suggestion that we are doing this
>> because we want to go to every country in the Middle East and rearrange
>> all of its pieces is not correct.
>>
>> Colin Powell
>> Remarks to UN Security Council
>> March 7, 2003
>> So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of
>> mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? . . . I think our judgment
>> has to be clearly not.
>>
>> George W. Bush
>> Address to the Nation
>> March 17, 2003
>> Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that
>> the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal
>> weapons ever devised.
>>
>> Ari Fleisher
>> Press Briefing
>> March 21, 2003
>> Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that
>> Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical
>> particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the course of the
>> operation, for whatever duration it takes.
>>
>> Gen. Tommy Franks
>> Press Conference
>> March 22, 2003
>> There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of
>> mass destruction. And . . . as this operation continues, those weapons
>> will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them
>> and who guard them.
>>
>> Defense Policy Board member Kenneth Adelman
>> Washington Post, p. A27
>> March 23, 2003
>> I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass
>> destruction.
>>
>> Pentagon Spokeswoman Victoria Clark
>> Press Briefing
>> March 22, 2003
>> One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a
>> number of sites.
>>
>> Donald Rumsfeld
>> ABC Interview
>> March 30, 2003
>> We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and
>> east, west, south and north somewhat.
>>
>> Neocon scholar Robert Kagan
>> Washington Post op-ed
>> April 9, 2003
>> Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass
>> destruction U.S. forces find -- and there will be plenty.
>>
>> Ari Fleischer
>> Press Briefing
>> April 10, 2003
>> But make no mistake -- as I said earlier -- we have high confidence that
>> they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about
>> and it is about. And we have high confidence it will be found.
>>
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>> George W. Bush
>> NBC Interview
>> April 24, 2003
>> We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi
>> scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he
>> destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them.
>>
>> Donald Rumsfeld
>> Press Briefing
>> April 25, 2003
>> There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . .
>> so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that
>> country.
>>
>> George W. Bush
>> Remarks to Reporters
>> May 3, 2003
>> We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so.
>>
>> Colin Powell
>> Remarks to Reporters
>> May 4, 2003
>> I'm absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction there and
>> the evidence will be forthcoming. We're just getting it just now.
>>
>> Donald Rumsfeld
>> Fox News Interview
>> May 4, 2003
>> We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction
>> in that country.
>>
>> George W. Bush
>> Remarks to Reporters
>> May 6, 2003
>> I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam
>> Hussein -- because he had a weapons program.
>>
>> Condoleeza Rice
>> Reuters Interview
>> May 12, 2003
>> U.S. officials never expected that "we were going to open garages and
>> find" weapons of mass destruction.
>>
>> Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, Commander 101st Airborne
>> Press Briefing
>> May 13, 2003
>> I just don't know whether it was all destroyed years ago -- I mean,
>> there's no question that there were chemical weapons years ago -- whether
>> they were destroyed right before the war, (or) whether they're still
>> hidden.
>>
>> Gen. Michael Hagee, Commandant of the Marine Corps
>> Interview with Reporters
>> May 21, 2003
>> Before the war, there's no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had
>> weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical. I expected them to
>> be found. I still expect them to be found.
>>
>> Gen. Richard Myers, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff
>> NBC Today Show interview
>> May 26, 2003
>> Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating,
>> I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction.
>>
>> Donald Rumsfeld
>> Remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations
>> May 27, 2003
>> They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.
>>
>> Paul Wolfowitz
>> Vanity Fair interview
>> May 28, 2003
>> For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass
>> destruction (as justification for invading Iraq) because it was the one
>> reason everyone could agree on.
>>
>> Lt. Gen. James Conway, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force
>> Press Interview
>> May 30, 2003
>> It was a surprise to me then - it remains a surprise to me now - that we
>> have not uncovered weapons, as you say, in some of the forward dispersal
>> sites. Believe me, it's not for lack of trying. We've been to virtually
>> every ammunition supply point between the Kuwaiti border and Baghdad, but
>> they're simply not there.
>>
>> Maj. Gen. Keith Dayton, Defense Intelligence Agency
>> Press Conference
>> May 30, 2003
>> Do I think we're going to find something? Yeah, I kind of do, because I
>> think there's a lot of information out there."
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