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Nog · 06-29-2003, 11:53 PM

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That's nothing! 90% think some kind of magical fairy god-kings exist.

is the 90% right, or the 10%??

meritocrat · 06-30-2003, 01:37 AM

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Originally posted by NZAmoeba
Don't forget, at LEAST 15% of americans think WMD's HAVE been found... :banghead:

Is that true?!!?! Heh heh, too rich!!

Jat · 06-30-2003, 02:57 AM

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Originally posted by meritocrat
I often wonder how these pro-war people must feel since no evidence of WMD's has been discovered. In essence, the reason why Bush and Blair wanted to go to war simply has no foundation.

Oh, they still have no doubt that they are there, they are insisting that Saddam was quite clever in hiding them. So, clever in fact that not even he knows where they are.

Jat · 06-30-2003, 02:59 AM

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Originally posted by Nog
is the 90% right, or the 10%??

That is easy enough to sort out. Will the god of the 90% please step forward....

TollHouse · 06-30-2003, 09:13 AM

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Originally posted by lunachick
While this thread is not at IIDB, it shows that some of those diehard chickenhawks are still at it. Tinfoil hats are very fashionable among the neocons, you know.

In all fairness though, just a couple of weeks ago, there was a thread at ChristianForums where one of the pro-war posters did come out and say he was duped by Bush.

Unfortunately, that post is gone with CF's recent server crash, but it was a very good read.

The Nose · 06-30-2003, 09:18 AM

To answer the OP's question directically: the retraction thread is simply missing. However, those who claim it never existed are nuthin but revisionist historicians!

Clutch · 06-30-2003, 10:10 AM

Aerion?

leonarde?

Lamma?

Layman?

Loren?

braces?

Hello?

theyeti · 06-30-2003, 10:24 AM

Excellent post, Bill.

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Originally posted by Bill

The Sunni minority is having a hard time getting used to not being part of the "in crowd" that runs the country. Some of them are working with the USA administrators, but others of them are far more likely to throw in with the Shiites and hope for a better state of affairs with them in control. Any Sunnis that join with the Shiites just make it that much more impossible for Bush to avoid an eventual Islamic state.

To make matters worse, the Bushites totally dismantled the pre-existing bureaucracy in order to make a clean ideological sweep, despite the fact that most of the low level Baathists probably had little love for Saddam and were not involved in setting policy in any meaningful way. So the country is left without any administrative capacity, and thousands of educated Bagdadis -- mostly Sunni -- are now out of a job. Given that they can't find work with the American occupation, who do you think they'll cast their lot with?

theyeti

Animesh · 06-30-2003, 10:36 AM

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Originally posted by Clutch
I haven't been around PD for a while. Did I miss a thread in which all the pro-war chickenhawks retracted their insistence that Saddam had WMDs and was so willing to use them that the USA had a right to defend itself pre-emptively?

Probably would have been an apology in there, too, for impugning the motives of anti-war posters -- eg, attributing their scepticism to a mindless insistence on doubting America at every turn.

Could someone give a link to the apology/retraction thread? Thanks.

I thought that the Reason We Went To War has been officially rewritten to "liberate those poor Iraqi people from that homicidal madman". WMD's weren't a big deal. And those of us that keep harping on that issue . . . well, clearly we just support Hussein and would prefer he continued to rule Iraq.

Farren · 06-30-2003, 11:01 AM

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Originally posted by Clutch
Aerion?

leonarde?

Lamma?

Layman?

Loren?

braces?

Hello?

Heh

I too find thier silence deafening. Although Loren's still fighting the good fight on behalf of Ariel Sharon and Rachel Corrie's murderers.

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06-30-2003, 09:18 AM	#16
The Nose Regular Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: NC Posts: 361	To answer the OP's question directically: the retraction thread is simply missing. However, those who claim it never existed are nuthin but revisionist historicians!

06-30-2003, 10:10 AM	#17
Clutch Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Canada Posts: 3,751	Aerion? leonarde? Lamma? Layman? Loren? braces? Hello?

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