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Originally posted by DeltAlum
Russ,
I'm curious as to why you deleted your post alleging that there was "never" any attempt by the Administration to tie Bin Laden, etc. to the arguments to go to war?
The fact is that, even if they weren't cited as official reasons, the inferences were certainly strong.
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Because I didn't want to jump into the thread with 8,000 different angles. I decided that I wanted to post about why we went in, not about why we didn't.
The Administration gave multiple arguments about why we went in, and bin Laden was not one of those reasons.
The media chose to ignore the other reasons. For example, Eli Weisel, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, and authority on genocide, met with President Bush in the first week of March, 2003. He urged President Bush to proceed with the regime change, but not because of WMD. Mr. Weisel urged President Bush to remove Saddam Hussein because the regime was persistently genocidal. The Bush administration held a press conference to discuss this meeting. It was one day news.