Re: 50,000 locals refused to accept Baha'ullah's claim

Paul Hammond wrote:

> Pat Kohli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > Paul Hammond wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > One could wish that other decisions (like the one to cultivate
> > > the Taliban against warlords and soviets) had been taken
> > > otherwise, but as to the intelligence services in various
> > > countries, and their fore-knowledge of the September 11th
> > > attack, the worst that can be laid at their door is
> > > incompetence, not connivance.  There seems to be some
> > > concern over different parts of intelligence gathering
> > > being put together - then, of course, there is the
> > > advantage of hindsight - when you already know which
> > > plots are real, and which just rumours, it is much
> > > easier to go back and sort the real information on
> > > a conspiracy from the rumours and plans that came to
> > > nothing.
> >
> > It doesn't help when the government is in the thick of the rumour-mongering; a 
> > significant number of Americans believe high
> > government officials that Iraq had something to do with the attacks against the US 
> > in September 01..
> >
>
> Well.
>
> Bush was suggesting that Saddam had something to do with
> Al-Qaida when he still needed to convince people he had
> a good reason to go in on Iraq.  Since the war, he has
> been saying that everyone always knew that Saddam and
> Al-Qaida were not working together like everyone
> always knew that, and he'd never said any different.
>
> I guess that's just politics.

Yes, George has been all truth and light on that one, for the past few months.  It is 
the Vice President who goes a bit farther.

    "We will not permit a brutal dictator with ties to terror and a
    record of reckless aggression to dominate the Middle East and
    threaten the United States of America," he said. "Confronting the
    threat posed by Iraq is not a distraction from the war on terror; it
    is absolute crucial to winning the war on terror."
    - Dick Cheney, January 2003

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/1/30/134415.shtml

xxxx news wire quote, October '03 xxx
    "We could not accept the grave danger of Saddam Hussein and
    his allies turning weapons of mass destruction against us or our
    friends and allies," Cheney told the conservative Heritage
    Foundation on Friday.

    He struck back at criticism of the Iraq war that has built since
    Bush declared major combat over on May 1. His speech picked
    up where President Bush left off a day earlier, when the
    president told listeners in Portsmouth, N.H., "The challenges we
    face today cannot be met with timid actions or bitter words."

    The vice president said, "The ultimate nightmare could bring
    devastation to our country on as scale we have never
    experienced."

    "Instead of losing thousands of lives, we might lose tens of
    thousands or even hundreds of thousands in a single day of war,"
    Cheney said.

    "Remember what we saw on the morning of 9-11. And knowing
    the nature of these enemies, we have as clear a responsibility as
    could ever fall to government. We must do everything in our
    power to keep terrorists from ever acquiring weapons of mass
    destruction."
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