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Originally posted by wonton
But that's the essence of "conspiracy". Let's not even use that word if it has too many negative conotations.
The fact is that Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and many other hawks of the current adminstration drew up war plans years ago.
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That?s hardly a secret. The neocon press (national review, new republic) has been making the case for war against Iraq for 10 years. They finally got a sympathetic ear from the Bush administration.
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They even published it. Now - shouldn't that be A HUGE NEWS STORY especially in the current climate of invading Iraq? Shouldn't EVERY MAJOR MEDIA OUTLET be talking about that, instead of merely parroting this "weapons of mass destruction" line from the president's press secretary? This should be HUGE. It should be a much larger story than Monica Lewinsky blowing Clinton
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It?s not a huge story, because as I said this has been public for years. The media has been reporting on the neocon?s (justifiable) obsession with Iraq for years.
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Instead, it is reported ONLY ONCE and at that on a midnight show. And believe me, it is NEVER likely to be reported again.
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Um, let?s see?..Nightline is one of (if not the most) influential news programs on television. It has been reported, and will continue to be reported until we finish the war with Iraq.
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If the current adminstration essentially drew up their war plans 4 or 5 years ago to invade Iraq but are now lying to the American people that the invasion is only necessary now because of new "secret evidence of WMD' then that is a monumental lie. We are going to war for reasons of global hegemony and not to "protect the american people from Saddam's non existant WMD. " I hate to use the C word but that is the essense of conspiracy!!
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That?s a sad commentary on society. There are about a hundred reasons why we should go to war with Iraq, strategic and humanitarian, but unfortunately the only reason the UN would (potentially) tolerate us going to war with Iraq would be that Saddam harbors WMDs. Never mind the fact that he is about 10x worse that Milosevic. Do you know he?s killed and tortured 4x as many people as Milosevic?