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• The sad part is... (Score:4, Insightful)

  by merlyn (47)

  ... that the right things will now happen for the wrong reasons. Because the American public has been snookered into believing that Saddam played a major role in 9/11, they will believe that "the war is nearly over now!" and go back to work and start playing the markets and investments long instead of short.

  So, life will get better for the US economy, and therefore the world economy, and yet we will be no closer to preventing another Osama Bin Laden attack, at all.

  The right thing happening for all the

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  • Re:The sad part is... (Score:1)

    by RobertX (3759)

    That is an idiotic thing to say. No one that I know connects Saddam with 9/11. Everyone I know agrees we should have taken him down. It is unfortunate that Bush chose WMD as his reason. If he would have chose humanitarian reasons none of these conversations would be happening now.
    • Re:The sad part is... (Score:2)

      by samtregar (2699) on 2003.12.14 17:12 (#26520) Homepage Journal

      True, given that we would have died laughing.

      -sam

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      • Re:The sad part is... (Score:1)

        by RobertX (3759)

        How so?
        • Re:The sad part is... (Score:2)

          by samtregar (2699)

          The idea that the current administration would spend billions of dollars purely for humanitarian reasons is, quiet frankly, hilarious. The reason Bush didn't say that is he knew no one would believe him!

          -sam
          • Re:The sad part is... (Score:1)

            by RobertX (3759)

            Ah! Well there we would agree. : )