Now This Is Interesting: 2 Quotes Here:

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Now this is interesting: 2 quotes here:

"If he [Hussein] were to acquire weapons, he would be the danger," Bush
said. "That's what I'm trying to explain to you. A gathering threat, after
9/11, is a threat that needed to be dealt with....."

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White House press secretary Scott McClellan said yesterday, though, that the
administration had not moved away from its stance that prewar Iraq possessed
actual weapons of mass destruction.

"We continue to believe that he had weapons of mass destruction programs and
weapons of mass destruction," McClellan said.

1st Quote: Were??? Whatever happened to "Has" and "we know where they
are", or "we think we know where they are", or, "we knew where they were,
but then they moved them"? Now, we're to If he"were" to acquire WMD's????

2nd paragraph/quote: "The administration has not moved on its stance....."
"We continue to believe that he had..."

I see a big move on stance from "knew/know/has" to "were", and that he
"had"..... had???? whatever happened to has???

Don't get me wrong, Saddam's capture was good for Iraqi people, I'm sure....
but let's not forget what the basis was for going to war.... "has/know"
which again..... restarted the AVIP in full swing.....



http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues....html#67B12CDC

Bush Plays Down Lack of WMD Evidence; David Kay Expected to Leave Before
Search Ends





U.S. President George W. Bush this week seemed to suggest that the issue of
whether prewar Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction was no longer
significant, stressing instead the importance of the overthrow of former
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, the New York Times reported today (see GSN,
Dec. 17).

During an interview with ABC News Tuesday, Bush said the overthrow of
Hussein justified the U.S. invasion, even though suspected weapons of mass
destruction, which were long cited by the Bush administration as a cause for
war, have not yet been found. Bush also said that evidence of Iraqi WMD
programs, collected after the war by U.S. chief weapons inspector David Kay,
showed that Iraq had violated U.N. Security Council resolutions and was a
cause for war.

"If he [Hussein] were to acquire weapons, he would be the danger," Bush
said. "That's what I'm trying to explain to you. A gathering threat, after
9/11, is a threat that needed to be dealt with, and it was done after 12
long years of the world saying the man's a danger," he added.

White House press secretary Scott McClellan said yesterday, though, that the
administration had not moved away from its stance that prewar Iraq possessed
actual weapons of mass destruction.

"We continue to believe that he had weapons of mass destruction programs and
weapons of mass destruction," McClellan said.

Opponents of Operation Iraqi Freedom, however, have said that the cause for
immediate military action of against Iraq would have been lacking if the
case had only been made on the basis of suspected Iraqi WMD programs.

"This was a pre-emptive war, and the rationale was that there was an
imminent threat," Senator Bob Graham (D-Fla.) said yesterday. The vote in
Congress to approve military action would have been closer "but for the fact
that the president had so explicitly said that there were weapons of mass
destruction that posed an imminent threat to citizens of the United States,"
he said (Richard Stevenson, New York Times, Dec. 18).

Kay to Leave Iraq Survey Group

Meanwhile, U.S. military and intelligence officials have said that Kay has
informed the Bush administration that he plans to resign before the Iraq
Survey Group completes it search for evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass
destruction, according to the Washington Post.

The officials said that Kay could leave Iraq before February, and that he
requested the change for personal reasons. When Kay accepted the position,
he expected to quickly find large amounts of evidence of prewar Iraqi WMD
efforts, they said.

"Kay is thinking of leaving before a final report and perhaps before the
next interim report," due in February, according to a senior Bush
administration official. The Iraq Survey Group is scheduled to submit its
final report next fall, the Post reported.

The senior administration official said that there would be a meeting next
week at CIA headquarters where "the next steps will be discussed"
(Priest/Pincus, Washington Post, Dec. 18).

A U.S. official today, however, described the Post report as "off the mark."
Kay and the CIA "will have continuing conversations about the next steps
regarding the ISG and the hunt for WMD, and the decision about whether he
will go back to Iraq has not been made yet," the official said (Joe Fiorill,
Global Security Newswire, Dec. 18).