From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Sun Dec 15 2002 - 05:16:20 MST
Mitch:
>>Why would the Bush administration not shout from the rooftops that
>> it was Iraqi anthrax, at a time when they need public support for
>> a war against Iraq? I don't know how reliable the journalist Bob
>> Woodward is, but in his new book "Bush At War" (pp248-249) he reports
>> a conversation from a National Security Council meeting last October,
>> in which Cheney, his chief of staff, and CIA head Tenet discuss the
>> anthrax. They agree that it was probably Al Qaeda and probably
>> state-sponsored. Tenet says he won't bring up state sponsorship in
>> public, and Cheney says "It's good that we don't, because we're not
>> ready to do anything about it."
Samantha:
>This is at the level of raw conspiracy theory. It is utterly
>empty as a reason for a supposedly free people to devote lives
>and fortunes to an adventure half-way around the world. Do you
>not find it ridiculously weak?
an excerpt
"When War Gets Personal"
http://www.free-market.net/spotlight/iraqwar/
"An insight into President Bush's motivation may have
been provided by the president himself during a
fundraising speech. He pointed out that Saddam
Hussein "is a guy who tried to kill my dad at one time."
While George W. Bush certainly has every right to be
angry over Hussein's botched post-Gulf War contract
on the first President Bush, there's no excuse for
nationalizing a personal score. Even the cleanest
military operation is likely to cost many lives on both
sides.
Of course, President Bush's remark may have been
simply an off-hand comment. But in the continuing
absence of evidence that Iraq poses more of a threat
to the U.S. than any of a host of other backwater
dictatorships, people should be forgiven for suspecting
that the country may go to war to settle a family
grudge.
After an Iraqi vice president challenged President Bush
to settle his differences with Saddam Hussein in
personal combat, more than a few pundits snickered
that a duel might be preferable to military mobilization.
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., the head of the Ludwig von
Mises Institute, suggested, "Choose your weapons,
fellas, and leave the rest of us out of it." "
Amara
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