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  • From: "Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>
  • To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] Re: Uma - Oprah, Obama - Osama
  • Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:50:18 -0400

Doesn't help Kerry's problem. You guys can argue till you are blue in the
face that he/congress were misinformed or lied to. They still spoke those
words:


http://john-kerry.tonyspencer.com/kerry-speech-10-9-2002.htm#wmd


Full circle : Should have picked Dean!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf
> Of David Minton
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 6:45 PM
> To: InterNetWorkers
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Re: Uma - Oprah, Obama - Osama
>
> On 7/30/04 11:46 AM, "Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com> wrote:
>
> > Brilliant or not, you think he fooled all of those people? Wow.
> >
> >> brilliant. Any decent definition of brilliance that I could agree
> >> with would require both capability and the good judgement
> to know how
> >> to use it.
> >
> > So the congressmen weren't capable of seeing through the
> 'Bush lies'?
> >
> >> All those quotes prove is that the administration was
> successful in
> >> lying to create a climate of fear where it was politically
> impossible
> >> to oppose the drive to war.
> >
> > How about these quotes prior to Bush taking office? Was he
> calling up
> > these folks on the phone and lying to them as well?
>
> Notice that all but one of the quotes are from 1998? Do you
> know hat happened in December of 1998? The Clinton
> administration implemented Operation Desert Fox, a
> coordinated attack by US and British forces to destroy Iraqi
> WMD sites.
>
> "Earlier today I ordered America's armed forces to strike
> military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by
> British forces...Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear,
> chemical and biological weapons programs and its military
> capacity to threaten its neighbors."
>
> -President Clinton 12.16.1998
>
> http://www.cnn.com/US/9812/16/clinton.iraq.speech/
>
> While I can't find the source, it is my understanding that
> Albright was speaking in a historical sense in 1999,
> referring to how money was spent during the embargo (on
> weapons) as opposed to food and medical supplies for his people.
>
> BTW, the source for those quotes seems to have been an email
> circulation. If you do a search for these quotes, you will
> find them all together, in this order, in numerous places.
>
> Here is a rebuttal of that site:
>
> http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/b/bushlied.htm
>
> So, any quote must be taken in the context of the rest of the
> speech, as well as the period in which it was said. If you
> only take a fragment, you can twist a quote to mean anything,
> even the opposite of the speaker's intention.
>
> Some say, this is a popular technique by right-wing
> commentators. Is it true? You decide. *
>
> David
>
> *check out Outfoxed <http://www.outfoxed.org/>
>
> > "One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the
> capacity to
> > develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to
> deliver them.
> > That is our bottom line."
> > President Bill Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
> >
> > "If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is
> > clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's
> > weapons of mass destruction program."
> > President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
> >
> > "Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a
> > great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue
> state will
> > use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or
> our allies
> > is the greatest security threat we face."
> > Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998
> >
> > "He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten
> > times since 1983."
> > Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998
> >
> > "[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and
> consistent with the U.S.
> > Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if
> > appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to
> > respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal
> to end its
> > weapons of mass destruction programs."
> > Letter to President Clinton, signed by:
> > Democratic Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry,
> and others,
> > Oct. 9,
> > 1998
> >
> > "Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of
> weapons of mass
> > destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region
> > and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
> > Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
> >
> > "Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building
> weapons of mass
> > destruction and palaces for his cronies."
> > Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999
> >
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