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Originally posted by MagiK:
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Originally posted by Jonas Strider:
i almost cried when i saw the figures of death and wounded tolls for both sides. yet what really irks me are the many fellow americans who are still for the war when it has been made clear that there was an error in intelligence. no womd, no connections to osama. wrong country we've attacked.
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You got this partially right....There were no stockpiles of WoMD, however the final analysis of the data and the 9/11 reports show there was connections between terrorism and Saddam, no one in the Bush administration said Saddam was behind 9/11.[/QUOTE]You got this partially right
What the administration
did do was repeatedly and repeatedly say that there were links between Al-Qaeda and Iraq (cleverly not specifically saying September 11th). Even the day after the 9/11 commission report concluding there were no links, Cheney gave a news conference and repeated that there was a connection.
This administration just lies to your face man, constantly. The upshot of all this misinformation was that over 66% of the American public thought that Saddam Hussein was responsible for September 11th, rising to over 80% in America's armed forces. It's true that the administration didn't specifically link Sep 11th with Iraq, but you can be sure as hell that they wanted the American people to make that little extra (and, from the public's point of view, reasonable) assumption.
Now, you may not think this is much of a problem. But mass deception and delusion like this strikes at the core of democracy in your country.
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[ 11-02-2004, 07:04 PM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]