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Leon wrote:
"Steve Peterson" wrote in message
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Both sides had the same "intelligence,"

False. AFAIK, no one otld the Congress that
the yellowcake documents were forgeries, something
that the Bush administration could harldynot have
known. No one told the Congress the truth about the
81mm Medusa missle tubes. No one told the Congress
that the only administration source for information
about the Iraqi bioweapons programs was a man who
had not been to Iraq in 15 years and was described by
German intelligance as a crazy drunk.

but only 1 decided to invade
another country on the basis of faulty intelligence, having decided first
and then flopping all over the place for an excuse. Bush is a war
criminal.


Wrong, both sides agreed to invade.

False. The Congress did not declare war, which would
have compelled the President to make war. The Congress
authorized the use of military force, which left that use
to the discretion of the President. That authorization was
necessary to force Iraq's compliance with UN 1441. Iraq
then complied with UN 1441, and Bush invaded anyways.

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