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Thread #87545   Message #1637852
Posted By: Teribus
30-Dec-05 - 09:54 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bush Iraq Propaganda Campaign
Subject: RE: BS: Bush Iraq Propaganda Campaign
Ron is very good at quotings bits of things, mainly because by doing so it helps his agruement. Here is a fuller quotation to the one with which he opened this thread:

It is taken from the President's 2003 State of the Union Address

"Before September the 11th, many in the world believed that Saddam Hussein could be contained. But chemical agents, lethal viruses and shadowy terrorist networks are not easily contained.

IMAGINE (referring to something that may happen in the future) those 19 hijackers with other weapons and other plans, THIS TIME (referring to something that may happen in the future) armed by Saddam Hussein. It would take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known.

We will do everything in our power to make sure that that day never comes.

Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike?

If this threat is permitted to fully and suddenly emerge, all actions, all words and all recriminations would come too late. Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a strategy, and it is not an option."

Now back that up with what the President said in his 2002 State of the Union Address regarding the two stage plan in his war against terror:
First - We will strike against the terrorist organisations
Second - We will strike against the regimes that could support those terrorist organisations.

The "Propanda Campaign" that Ron talks about does not and never has existed outside of his own imagination - it really has been "The Propaganda Campaign that Never Was".