Sites Holmquist trys, and often fails, to go no more than a couple of days without visiting (some of which Holmquist regularly swipes links from without attribution)
"[T]he decision to confront Saddam Hussein was because he was a gathering threat," Scott McClellan said Monday. "Saddam Hussein was a gathering threat, there was no debate about the fact that he was a threat. We knew he had weapons of mass destruction... He had the intention and he had the capability."
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... we already know from Dr. Kay, from his testimony, from the progress report that he oversaw as head of the Iraq Survey Group, that Saddam Hussein had the intention and had the capability. He was a threat. He was a gathering threat...
...what we know is that what we've already learned from Dr. Kay only reconfirms the fact that Saddam Hussein was a gathering threat and that it was the right decision to remove his regime from power. the American people know that the decision that the President took was the right decision to confront a gathering threat and remove that threat...
...we knew Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction...
Saddam Hussein was a gathering threat. And what we have learned today only reconfirms the fact that he was a gathering threat. The decision that the President made was the right decision, in the interest of doing everything we can to protect the American people from the new and dangerous threats that we face in the 21st century. We know he had the intention, we know he had the capability, and we acted to remove that threat...
...we got it right that Saddam Hussein was a grave and gathering threat. We got it right that he had the intention and capability. He was a threat. We got it right. And it was the right decision to remove him from power.
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I've been particularly busy the last three days. I will most likely write more on that later. posted by micah holmquist at 2/04/2004 07:45:00 PM