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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Veers: [qb] I couldn't find Bush's statements, but I found these. [URL=http://www.intelmessages.org/Messages/National_Security/wwwboard/messages/2159.html]Colin Powell, Oct. 2002[/URL] Very interesting. Note: [QUOTE]"All we‘re interested in is getting rid of those weapons of mass destruction. We think the Iraqi people would be a lot better off with a different leader, a different regime. But the principal offense here are weapons of mass destruction," Mr. Powell said. [/QUOTE]So, what he's saying is: "Yeah, we'd like to help Iraq, but if he gave up his weapons, then, sure, he could stay." [/qb][/QUOTE]Actually, I'd argue that given the time it was said, this best translates as "we're still trying to build a coalition, which would undoubtedly include Arab states, and we don't want to say anything that will undoubtedly collapse it." That is, after all, why we left the creep in power back in '91. To avoid upsetting the Arabs. IMHO, the deaths of nearly everybody who died in Iraq between '91 and '03 are on the heads of the people who pushed for, made, and held to, the decision JUST to push Iraq out of Kuwait, and not to remove Hussein then. Meaniing, for the most part, Saudi Arabia, Europe, the UN, Bush I, and the "doves" at War and State. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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