Originally posted by: XZeroII
Originally posted by: zhena
ok, this is not another dump on bush thread.
1. There is a link between bin laden and saddam.
THIS IS FALSE! so says the CIA. No, I am not one to say that saddam wouldn't work with bin laden.
But the fact is this just hasn't happened. Bush promised to provide proof of this when the time came right?
well where is the proof? the time has come. Can any one site one fact that shows this to be true?
2. THIS I THINK IS THE MOST EMBARASSMENT LIE Iraq has been trying to buy African uranium.
Bush even said it in his STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH. THIS IS TOTALY FALSE AND IS AN EMBARASSMENT.
The so called proof of this was given by the US and UK to the UN. And the UN looked at the papers and said this is false.
They not only said it, they proved it. One of the papers was signed by a leader who is no longer in power, but was in power
in the 1980's. The other signature in a different document was simply not the signature of the person who?s name appeared on the dotted line.
3. The centrifuges that saddam got was to advanced the nuclear program in Iraq.
Now i am not claiming that iraq doesn't want to get nukes more than ever.
But once again this is simply false! The UN inspectors and every coherent document on this matter says that you can't do
sh!t with those centrifuges.
1.) What does it matter? I believe a link was shown, but it is irrelavent. It doesn't matter one way or another. The point is that Saddam is looking to build up his forces just like Germany did in the 20's and 30's. They are buying lots of weapons and trying to consolidate their power.
2.) I haven't heard of them trying to buy uranium from Africa (I didn't listen to his SOTU), but there is evidence that they have nuclear material. After the first gulf war, they found enriched uranium. Why would he just abandon his research on the subject? The point is that he is trying to acquire more nuclear material (sorry, no proof).
3.) Just because the inspectors found some cheap centifuges doesn't mean that Iraq isn't trying to enrich or obtain enriched Uranium.
A lack of proof does not mean that Saddam is innocent. Bush has some very strong circumstancial evidence against Saddam. It's like someone having a gun behind their shirt and pointing it at you. There is no direct proof that the gun exists (it could be a marker or something), but that doesn't mean that you aren't going to give the person all your money. The same is true here. We have no direct evidence that Saddam has these weapons, but we can see the gun through his shirt (although he isn't pointing it at anyone). This is a convicted felon with a gun here. Wouldn't you be uneasy? My point is that Bush isn't lying. It's like playing telephone. Bush says something and the media interprets it a certain way and relays that info to the public. The public then interprets it again and suddenly you start seeing little holes in what is going on. Compound that with the fact that you are dealing with circumstantial evidence to begin with and everything starts looking like lies. I'm not saying that everything Bush says is the truth, but when it comes to this war with Iraq, he has been as honest as he can be.