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White House Lied About Iraq Nuclear Programs
An anonymous reader writes "This New York Times article reports that in 2002, the Bush Administration's assertions that Saddam Hussein was rebuilding his nuclear weapons program were based on evidence that was doubted by the government's foremost nuclear security experts. Specifically, aluminum tubes most likely meant for small artillery rockets were interpreted by the administration as parts for uranium centrifuges." In a nutshell: while Bush, Cheney, Rice and Rumsfeld were announcing to the American public that these tubes were slam-dunk evidence of Iraq's nuclear ambitions, they already knew that there was completely overwhelming evidence that the tubes were just for artillery rockets (as Iraq said) and that the tubes were totally unsuitable for use in centrifuges.
Soemone already has. It's in wide use on the bush_sucks lj community.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
First on your sig (sorry, cannot resist) "If you disagree with something I say, reply and tell me why. Modding down tells me I'm right."
... I guess that Mumar Kadafi must be eliminated or Lybia will develop WMDs (and his sons will rule Lybia forever); these must be the only options.
The correct actions are for some people to mod you down and for others to reply and tell you about your errors. This way you will be uncertain of the slashdot opinion - modded down = "I am right" replies = "I am wrong" ???
(By the way, do you doubt yourself if you are modded up?)
"Another question could be--was it in the best interest of the Iraqi people to remove Saddam? We could have just left him there until he died and passed on his leadership to his sons. It would have gone on forever."
So this was an either-or situation. The only options were (1) to invade or (2) let Saddam's heirs rule forever? It is too bad that there is no third alternative.
I hope you grow up someday.
I've got news for you. This same area is also an erogenous zone for men. In fact, in both genders, we have many many erogenous zones that you're probably not even aware of.
Western and American children, deprived of the NORMAL two to three years of breast feeding that homo sapiens have enjoyed throughout recent evolutionary history, never got enough of the boob and spend their lives lusting after what they missed. The hyper-sexualization of breasts is DIRECTLY related to the decline of breastfeeding. Remember, however -- correlation does NOT imply causation...