On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:55:17 -0500, "Pete C." <aux3.DOH.4@snet.net>
wrote:

>Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> "Pete C." wrote:
>> >
>> > The billions sent to Iraq are a drop in the bucket and while not being
>> > particularly well spent are at least being thrown in the direction of a
>> > very real threat. A good chunk of our tax dollars are being wasted on
>> > well intentioned but counterproductive "humanitarian aid". The largest
>> > portion of our tax dollars however are being wasted right here in the
>> > US.
>>
>> Pray tell.... what threat is that? The administration admitted that there
>> was no link between Iraq and 9/11.
>
>They didn't initially claim one either.
>

this is total bullshit.

>> They also admitted that there turned out
>> to be no WMDs, just as the weapons inspectors had reported.
>
>Entirely false. The WMDs are indeed still MIA, however they were indeed
>found and inventoried by the UN UNSCOM inspectors. The inventoried WMDs
>went MIA some time in the decade that passed after Saddam threw out
>those inspectors. The fact that they can not now be located in no way
>disproves their existence.
>

jeez, they couldn't possibly have been destroyed, could they?

>> After
>> dismissing the advice of numbers security advisors that there were no WMDs
>> and that invading Iraq was a bad idea, Bush found people to tell him what
>> he wanted them to say and went ahead. Iraq was no threat to the US. The
>> biggest threat to the US seems to be sitting in the Oval Office.
>
>If that's what you believe, you are part of the biggest threat to the
>US.
>

yeah, i think i saw dave down at the bus station armed with box
cutters. call homeland security!

your pal,
blake