Re: "smoked salmon socialists"

"Rubystars" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

> Bullshit. Saddam posed a direct threat to his neighbors, he financed
> terrorists in the region, and that is a direct threat to our interests as
> well. He was working on a nuclear program several times in the past and he
> was going to do it again, that was a direct threat to us.

That's why, just two years prior to the invasion,
Colin Powell was telling Egyptian press:

"We will always try to consult with our friends in the
region so that they are not surprised and do everything
we can to explain the purpose of our responses. We
had a good discussion, the Foreign Minister and I and
the President and I, had a good discussion about the
nature of the sanctions -- the fact that the sanctions
exist -- not for the purpose of hurting the Iraqi people,
but for the purpose of keeping in check Saddam
Hussein's ambitions toward developing weapons of
mass destruction. We should constantly be reviewing
our policies, constantly be looking at those sanctions
to make sure that they are directed toward that
purpose. That purpose is every bit as important now
as it was ten years ago when we began it. And frankly
they have worked. He has not developed any
significant capability with respect to weapons of mass
destruction. He is unable to project conventional
power against his neighbors. So in effect, our policies
have strengthened the security of the neighbors of
Iraq, and these are policies that we are going to keep
in place, but we are always willing to review them to
make sure that they are being carried out in a way
that does not affect the Iraqi people but does affect
the Iraqi regime's ambitions and the ability to acquire
weapons of mass destruction, and we had a good
conversation on this issue."
--Secretary of State Colin Powell, 02/24/2001

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