"NOYB" wrote in message
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Why bother with appearances, when the entire plan was designed with
absolutely no consideration for our image in the world?

Because the administration gave the French and Russians a chance to atone
for their sins of sending banned arms to Saddam. As the Oil-for-food
scandal unfurled, it became evident that neither of those two countries
would have budged and inch no matter what we negotiated.

I don't buy it, but that's just how I am.



So, please, cut the crap. If there were WMDs, your president wanted
them gone. Use your imagination and you can figure out the reasons.
I'll admit there may have been just ONE good reason to allow them to be
smuggled out: To make the country a bit safer for our troops. But,
since your president can't arrange for vehicle armor, I doubt he really
cared much whether soldiers were exposed to chemical or biological
weapons.

I can think of another good reason to allow them to be smuggled out:
We weren't ready to militarily engage the Russians who were helping
Saddam sneak the WMD from his country to Syria.

Oh boy. You think there were frightening numbers of Russian soldiers
waiting for us?

No. And I never said that. But there were plenty of Russian soldiers
elsewhere in the world that we didn't want to drag into our fight in Iraq.

Time out. If, theoretically, president Rove actually knew which trucks were
hauling stuff out of Iraq, he wouldn't have gone after them because...why?
You think the Russians would've swarmed in from wherever to mess with us???