From: "Adam Flinton" 


"Geo."  wrote in message
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> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
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> > Oliver "I lie to Congress for a living but trust me I'm telling the
truth"
> > North ?
>
> regardless of how you view him, his is an insider type and he does have an
> opinion.
>

It ain't just the way I view him. He can have an opinion but given his
opinion used to be "the best thing is to sell weapons to Islamic
extremists so that the money can be used to pay for terrorism in central
america..." whereas now I believe selling weapons to Islamic
extremists is not a good idea nor is funding terrorist
groups....so...excuse me while I take what he says with the annual salt
output of the dead sea.


> I'm still wondering why they would make such a big fuss over Iraq if there
> was nothing to it? I mean they didn't need it as a distraction, heck Al
> Qaeda is a much better distraction than Iraq could ever hope to be so what
> is it that has required so much focus from the administration?
>
> Don't give me the "they tried to kill my daddy" crap either, I don't
believe
> for a second that bush couldn't get even with a whole lot less noise and
> expense, there is much more to it than that.
>

It's because they didn't "get the job done" last time & that
has rankled since 91-92. Also I don't believe they could get it done with
less expense & noise because Mr Hussein is very good at staying alive
within Iraq.

> The one possibility I did come up with all by myself: they keep mentioning
> bio/chem weapons. What if... a bio weapon were to go off over the oil
> fields? Who could possibly run an oil business in a contaminated
wasteland?
> Certainly not Iraq..
>

Hohum........why would that be a problem? Oil comes from out of the rock so
it would be comparatively easy to seal the whole thing from rock >
pipeline
> collecting station many miles away (heck they do that 300 ft down under
the north sea).

Honestly I think that right wing republicans need an enemy to set
themselves against as economics etc is "boring".

Imagine GWB now w/o 9-11 & with the economy in the skip/the same
condition it is now. % in favour of him would be low. % in favour of going
after Iraq (he would have brought it up w/o 9-11) would have been even
smaller.

Adam

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