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Re: Amen!

Written by chImp at 11 Apr 2003 00:34:24:

As an answer to: Re: Amen! written by Ivan at 11 Apr 2003 00:19:52:

The Bush administration clearly demonizes Al Qaeda and everyone suspected of having a link with it. Don't you remember the "Axis of Evil" speech? And Reagan called the Soviet Union as the "source of all evil". Soviet Union in the 80's was a quite civilizes country and many, many Russians look back at those times with nostalgy.

>Okay, you're wrong. The Bush administration never used logic remotely like this to justify the extension of the war against world terrorism to the territory of Iraq. The primary argument has consistently been that the Ba'athist regime harbors and sponsors terrorist organizations and was developing various weapons of mass destruction for use against the USA and its friends and allies (and if he was not continuing to pursue these, he could have avoided invasion by giving the inspectors the documentation to show what had happened to what he was known to have had and the opportunity to confirm it). Hussein was known to have stated many times over the past dozen years that the biggest regret he had was that he did not wait the few years it would have taken to have nuclear weapons before invading Kuwait.


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