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Thread #52072   Message #801291
Posted By: NicoleC
11-Oct-02 - 03:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bush, Iraq, and War: PART EIGHT
Subject: RE: BS: Bush, Iraq, and War: PART EIGHT
However sad, it must be taken for granted that everyday citizens will not see the evidence if it exists, unless independant journalists dig it up. I'm sure they can trot out some satellite photos or something -- everyone KNOWS we have satellites photographing everybody; no intelligence loss there.

Even if you accept the arguement that revealing hard evidence would put intelligence efforts in danger (which is impossible to judge without seeing the evidence itself), high ranking government officials share this information with other high-ranking government officials of countries that are our allies when trying to create a coalition.

So why haven't our allies seen the evidence and declared their support, as they did after 9/11? Is it that we haven't any hard evidence to present, or is it that we haven't bothered to present it to them? I suspect the former -- the evidence that justifies a "JUST WAR" (a Catholic doctrine I don't agree with anyway) isn't there. We can suspect any number of things until we are blue in the face, but suspicion alone is not just cause for mass murder.

I'm sorry to say this, but the fact that Britain has agreed to support the US means nothing. I do wish the British leadership would stop being a US patsy.