Will Speech Lack Hyperbole That 'Justified' War?

[Postman]

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0119-01.htm

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Why not ask Scowcroft to lead an inquiry into which government officials and members of Congress were briefed on the full story provided by Kamel, and when? With 500 of our sons and daughters already killed in Iraq, we are due no less.

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Damaging information

Consider these events and revelations earlier this month:

• The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace released an exhaustive study, which concluded: ``Administration officials systematically misrepresented the threat from Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs.''

• On the same day, State Secretary Colin Powell finally conceded that there never had been any ''concrete evidence'' of Iraqi ties to al Qaeda, contradicting himself on the ''sinister nexus'' that he conjured up for the U.N. Security Council last February.

• Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has said that during his two years in the president's cabinet, ``I never saw anything I would characterize as evidence of weapons of mass destruction.''

• But the most damaging revelation came from an internal Iraqi document -- this time, happily, not a forged one -- confirming that a high-level order to destroy all chemical and biological weapons was carried out in the summer of 1991 (there were no nuclear weapons). U.S. officials learned of this in mid-1995 from what intelligence officers would call ''a reliable source with excellent access.'' Everything else he told us has checked out.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

1. he won't say "Osama bin Laden" once...but will say "captured Saddam 20 x's

and yes it will be totally lacking in hyperbole about justified reason for war"