Not As Important As Terri Schiavo But....

I like it when people attack me because I'm European...! Mhmmmm! Makes me feel important! We Europeans need that! We don't get it enough these days...

McG, what I mean is: the US attacked Iraq, didn't they? I think that qualifies for "going around attacking other countries". What do you think I meant?

America will never be unjustified in attacking another country because we won't be attacking other countries without justification. See how that works?

Please stop confusing the justifications the media has given with those that the government give. They are seldom the same.

Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. This regime has already used weapons of mass destruction against Iraq's neighbors and against Iraq's people.

The regime has a history of reckless aggression in the Middle East. It has a deep hatred of America and our friends. And it has aided, trained and harbored terrorists, including operatives of al Qaeda.

The danger is clear: using chemical, biological or, one day, nuclear weapons, obtained with the help of Iraq, the terrorists could fulfill their stated ambitions and kill thousands or hundreds of thousands of innocent people in our country, or any other. [..]

The United States and other nations did nothing to deserve or invite this threat. But we will do everything to defeat it. Instead of drifting along toward tragedy, we will set a course toward safety. Before the day of horror can come, before it is too late to act, this danger will be removed.

The United States of America has the sovereign authority to use force in assuring its own national security. That duty falls to me, as Commander-in-Chief, by the oath I have sworn, by the oath I will keep.

Recognizing the threat to our country, the United States Congress voted overwhelmingly last year to support the use of force against Iraq. [..] Under Resolutions 678 and 687 -- both still in effect -- the United States and our allies are authorized to use force in ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. This is not a question of authority, it is a question of will.

Based upon the commissions findings it is apparent that the invasion of Iraq was all the fault of the intel agencies . Bush says the "Intel made me do it". I knew nothing. Doesn't that sound a lot like what the Nazi's said at the Neurenberg trials.
Anyone interested in buying a bridge?

I tried to pull it back on course Slap but nothing happened. I sort of see how it happened. The premise of the thread is that people are ignoring news of this type because they can't stop rubbernecking Terri Schiavo.

The commission's report said the principal cause of the intelligence failures was the intelligence community's "inability to collect good information about Iraq's WMD programs, serious errors in analyzing what information it could gather and a failure to make clear just how much of its analysis was based on assumptions rather than good evidence."

The media didn't make up the WMD justification, Bush did that all by himself. Let's go back, once more, to that momentous day when President Bush declared in an address to the nation that Saddam Hussein had 48 hours left to leave Iraq. What did he say - how did he phrase his appeal to the nation to prepare for war?