by robertdreed » Mon Aug 15, 2005 3:00 am
"...Even if the President saw her, she would not be satisified with any answer that he gives her. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>They could pull out top secret data</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> and show it to her and it still would not be enough..."<br><br>Norman, while your statement is phrased as a hypothetical, you're implying that such "top secret data" exists. <br><br>I suppose you're still convinced that the WMDs exist- only instead of their presence being kept "top secret" by Saddam Hussein, now it's the Bush administration doing so. <br><br><br>That's what I call "grasping at straws."<br><br>Such naive trust of George W. Bush- or, more to the point, the office of the Presidency- is by no means uncommon among Americans. They seem to think that there's some sort of "commutative property" of government, that once someone is elected president of the USA = they're automatically a trustworthy person, no matter what their subsequent words and actions may indicate to the contrary. <br><br>Perhaps President Bush might have even gotten away with calling for the invasion of Iraq on the grounds of unspecified "top secret reasons", and Congress would still have gone for it. I'm fairly sure that at least a few of them would have, with no awareness at all of the irony. <br><br>But Bush didn't do that. His administration made detailed allegations of sophisticated and ongoing Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear weapons research programs that he alleged were being kept "top secret"by Saddam. <br><br>If those programs were in fact found, why continue to keep that news a secret? <br><br>By the way, how's your memory? <br><br>As far as I'm concerned, perhaps the most effective thing that anti-Iraq War talk radio hosts could do would be to dig out those old archives of Rush Limbaugh and his imitators in the months before the Iraq invasion, and for a few months afterward. Dig up every tall tale, every wild conjecture, every rumor passed off as fact, every glowing promise...make a greatest hits compilation, and broadcast it. <br><br>There would hardly even be a need for comment, afterward. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p097.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=robertdreed>robertdreed</A> at: 8/15/05 4:19 am<br></i>