| It does matter if no weapons of mass destruction are found in Iraq. |
| In the first presidential debate with Vice-President Gore, Bush said, "The vice president and I have a disagreement about the use of troops. He believes in nation-building. I would be very careful about using our troops as nation builders. I believe the role of the military
is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place. [I]f we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, then we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road." Source: DeanForAmerica.com It may or may not be a good idea for the US to roam the world overthrowing evil dictators. In the quote from the 2000 debate above, then Governor Bush seems to think it is not. However, before the invasion of Iraq, the case for overthrowing Saddam Hussein was based entirely on the immediate threat he posed because he possessed "weapons of mass destruction" and that he was likely to either use these weapons to attack America or it's allies in the immediate future, or that he was likely to make them available to terrorists who would turn them against America or it's allies. The US Congress gave Bush the authority for the invasion of Iraq based on the threat of Iraqs huge stockpiles of weapons. Bush never based his case for the invasion on any other issue. [O]ne of the latest actions by the Bushites ...came in the form of a threatening letter sent to Wisconsin TV stations by the Republican Party's top lawyer, Caroline Hunter. It seems that these stations were airing an ad produced by the Democratic Party, that calls for a bipartisan independent investigation of the false information used by Bush and the White House to mislead the American people about the supposed "imminent threat" posed by weapons of mass destruction they claimed were in Iraq. The lawyer's letter to the TV stations demanded that they not air this ad because – get this – she blithely says that stations have "no right to willfully spread false information in a deliberate attempt to mislead the American people." Source: JimHightower.com - "GOP GOES FROM IRONY TO INTIMIDATION" -- 8/4/2003 |
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| You really should be ashamed of the way you criticize our beloved president. These are just simple grammar mistakes. Anybody could make them. In the debate when he says "he" he meant "I". When he says "I" he meant "he". He was truthing back then, considering. And of course TV stations do not have the right to willfully mislead the American people. That right is reserved to the executive branch of government in times of crisis and war, like now. That right does not belong to dummies like you, with your deceit and lies. It's traitors like you who made this a time of crisis and war. This is our country. Love it or leave it, you liberal shmuck. Guantanimo has space for you. | 5/3/2004 | |
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