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Thursday, February 05, 2004
Michigan State 89 Iowa 72 This win was the 200th of Tom Izzo's head coaching career. *** *** *** Somehow I just don't have the money for a F/A-18A Navy Blue Angel Hornet. *** We know Saddam Hussein had the capability to produce weapons of mass destruction. He had the scientists and technology in place to make those weapons. We know he had the necessary infrastructure to produce weapons of mass destruction because we found the labs and dual use facilities that could be used to produce chemical and biological weapons. We know he was developing the delivery systems, ballistic missiles that the United Nations had prohibited. We know Saddam Hussein had the intent to arm his regime with weapons of mass destruction, because he hid all those activities from the world until the last day of his regime.Assuming that the WMDs don't exist, which looks more likely than not, Bush wants us to believe that a "threat" that had to be removed existed because it could develop WMDs at some point in the future even though when faced with an impending invasion the said "threat" saw no need to get the process humming. Later Bush said: If some politicians in Washington had their way, Saddam Hussein would still be in power. All of the Security Council resolutions and condemnations would still be issued and still be ignored, scraps of paper amounting to nothing. Other regimes and terror networks, had we not acted, would have concluded that America backs down when things get tough. Saddam would still have his weapons capabilities, and life would sure be different for the Iraqi people. The secret police would still be making arrests in the middle of the night. Prisons and torture chambers would still be filled with victims. More innocent Iraqis would have been sent to mass graves. Because we acted, Iraq's nightmare is over. (Applause.) Their country, our country and the entire world are better off because the regime of Saddam Hussein is gone, and gone forever.The really funny, and sad, thing is that Bush can say this type of stuff without being widely ridiculed. |