12-02-2008, 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by catawba
An interesting anecdotal read...
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hardly humorous ~ their words, their plan...and look where it has got us. i believe if you read what they wrote you would find that it was part of their big plan to reagrange the middle east, and secure the realm.
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Originally Posted by catawba
...I see nothing definitive however that makes the case for Iraq being a threat to the U.S., or Israel for that matter.
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earth to cat ~ you we not the one calling the shots ~ now were you?
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Bush also spoke candidly about why the US was going to war during a White House meeting on Feb. 27, 2003, just three weeks before the invasion. In a talk with Elie Wiesel, the well-known Jewish writer, Bush said: “If we don’t disarm Saddam Hussein, he will put a weapon of mass destruction on Israel and they will do what they think they have to do, and we have to avoid that.” [Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack (Simon & Schuster, 2004), p. 320.]
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Condoleeza Rice, who served as President Bush’s National Security Advisor, and later, as his Secretary of State, echoed the President’s outlook in a May 2003 interview, saying that the “security of Israel is the key to security of the world.” [ A. S. Lewin, "Israel’s Security is Key to Security of Rest of World," Jewish Press (Brooklyn, NY), May 14, 2003. Rice's interview with the Israeli daily Yediot Aharnonot is quoted.]
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apparently they saw a threat!
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This [President Bush’s decision to attack was to help Israel] is so widely understood in Washington that US Senator Ernest Hollings was moved in May 2004 to acknowledge that the US invaded Iraq “to secure Israel,” and “everybody” knows it. He also identified three of the influential pro-Israel Jews in Washington who played an important role in prodding the US into war: Richard Perle, chair of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board; Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Defense Secretary; and Charles Krauthammer, columnist and author. [ Remarks by Ernest F. Hollings, May 20, 2004. Congressional Record – Senate, May 20, 2004, pages S5921-S5925. See also: M. Weber, "”Iraq Was Invaded to Secure Israel,” Says Senator Hollings..." (http://www.ihr.org/news/040716_hollings.shtml)]
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and just where these folks at the time cat?
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Some months before the invasion, retired four-star US Army General and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Wesley Clark acknowledged in an interview: “Those who favor this attack [by the US against Iraq] now will tell you candidly, and privately, that it is probably true that Saddam Hussein is no threat to the United States. But they are afraid at some point he might decide if he had a nuclear weapon to use it against Israel." [The Guardian (London), August 20, 2002.]
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Six months before the attack, President Bush met in the White House with eleven members of the US House of Representatives. While the “war against terrorism is going okay,” he told the lawmakers, the United States would soon have to deal with a greater danger: “The biggest threat, however, is Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction. He can blow up Israel and that would trigger an international conflict.” [Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack (Simon & Schuster, 2004), p. 186. See also p. 188]
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no doubt if you or i were in charge this fiasco may have not happened, but then we were not. this is how the folks in charge saw it ~ deal with it ~ live with it ~ and it ain't humorous. 
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according to military personal present , for attacking irag?
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