Re: How much security does $1 trillion buy?

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:22:23 CDT, Brian Loe said:

> So, of the full-truths I listed, which did the current administration
> pick half of?

How about this one?

> He had, at the least, plans for a nuke program - and the means to obtaining one
Ah yes.. the infamous "yellow cake from Niger".  I seem to remember that it
turned out to be totally bogus - and that Valerie Plame was involved in the
discovery that it was bogus.  Would certainly explain why it was convenient
to "out" her...

> He had chemical weapons out the wazoo.

Maybe 10 years before we invaded, he had a bunch that he used against some
resistance in the northern provinces.  But where were they when we actually
got there?  Where are all the WMD that we *knew* had to be there somewhere,
as Colin Powell told the United Nations?

> He gassed his own people.

And we poured Agent Orange on our own troops too.  Does that give other countries
the right to invade us?

> He drained the marshlands, destroying one of the largest wetland
> systems in the world (where are the tree huggers on this?!).

By that standard, our refusal to abide by the Kyoto protocols regarding
emissions control puts *us* in a bad light too.

And you overlooked another "half-truth" - that we were invading Iraq because
they were major backers of al Quaida.

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