LIES Paved the Road To DESTRUCTIONS.
"Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities
that were used for the production of biological weapons."
-- President Bush, Sept. 12, 2002.
"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now
has weapons of mass destruction." -- Vice President Dick
Cheney, Aug. 26, 2002.
. "The Iraqi regime possesses and produces chemical and
biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons." --
Bush, Oct. 7, 2002.
. "We've also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has
a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that
would be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons
across broad areas. We're concerned that Iraq is exploring
ways of using the UAVs for missions targeting the United
States." -- Bush, Oct. 7, 2002.
. "The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its
nuclear weapons program. Saddam Hussein has held numerous
meetings with Iraqi nuclear scientists, a group he calls
his 'nuclear mujahideen' -- his nuclear holy warriors.
Satellite photographs reveal that Iraq is rebuilding
facilities at sites that have been part of its nuclear
program in the past."-- Bush, Oct. 7, 2002.
. "We know for a fact there are weapons there." -- White
House spokesman Ari Fleischer, Jan. 9, 2003.
. "Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein
had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of Sarin,
mustard and VX nerve agent." -- Bush, Jan. 28, 2003.
. "We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his
weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more."
-- Secretary of State Colin Powell, Feb. 5, 2003.
. "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments
leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess
and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised."
-- Bush, March 17, 2003.
. "Well, there is no question that we have evidence and
information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction,
biological and chemical particularly." -- Fleischer, March
21, 2003.
. "I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of
weapons of mass destruction." -- Kenneth Adelman, Defense
Policy Board, March 23, 2003.
. "We know where they are. They are in the area around
Tikrit and
Baghdad." -- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, March
30, 2003.
. "We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so." --
Bush, May 3, 2003.

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What war on terrorism? WE CAN'T WIN, says the War
President...
Bush says war on terror can't be won
By Ken Herman
Cox News Service
Monday, August 30, 2004
TAYLOR, Michigan - President Bush, who will be hailed at
his party's
national convention this week as a great wartime leader,
said in an
interview aired Monday that the war on terror cannot be won.
"I don't think you can win it, but I think you can create
conditions
so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable
in parts of
the world," Bush told NBC's "Today" show. "Let's put it
that way. I
have a two-prong strategy. On the one hand, it's to find
them before
they hurt us. And that's necessary. I'm telling you. It's
necessary."
Bush said that part of the effort is going well. "I mean,
we are
dismantling al-Qaeda as we knew it," he said.
The second part of the strategy, Bush said, "is to spread
freedom and
liberty." He declined to predict when the war against
terror might
end.
"When we succeed in Iraq and Afghanistan it's the beginning
of the end
for these extremists because freedom is going to have a
powerful
influence to make sure your kids can grow up in a peaceful
world," he
said.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Monday that Bush
was
talking about winning the war "in the conventional sense."
"I don't think you can expect that there will ever be a
formal
surrender or a treaty signed like we have in wars past,"
McClellan
said aboard Air Force One as Bush headed to a New Hampshire
campaign
event. "That's what he was talking about when he was
talking about
that. It requires a generational commitment to win this war
on
terrorism."
"You can't put a time frame on it, per se," McClellan said.
The Democrats pounced quickly on Bush's remarks.
"After months of listening to the Republicans base their
campaign on
their singular ability to win the war on terror, the
president now
says we can't win the war on terrorism," said vice
presidential
candidate John Edwards. "This is no time to declare defeat.
It won't
be easy and it won't be quick but we have a comprehensive
plan to make
America safer. And that's a difference."
Edwards also criticized a Bush comment to Time magazine in
which the
president termed the swift victory in Iraq a "catastrophic
success."
"Had we to do it over again, we would look at the
consequences of
catastrophic success - being so successful, so fast, that
an enemy
that should have surrendered or been done in escaped and
lived to
fight another day," Bush told the magazine.
Said Edwards, "President Bush now says his Iraq policy is a
catastrophic success. He's half right. It was catastrophic
to rush to
war without a plan to win the peace."
And in New York, retired Air Force Chief of Staff Merrill
McPeak,
during a news conference hosted by the Democratic Party's
GOP
convention response team, said Kerry "knows how to win the
war on
terror" if Bush does not. He said Kerry would use America's
economic
power as well as its military arsenal to defeat terrorism.
McPeak said the Bush administration, through
miscalculations about
Iraq and the war on terror and his "go-it-alone" approach
to foreign
policy, has "forfeited its legitimacy" in the conflict.
But the GOP convention opened with praise of Bush's efforts.
"We are confronting the forces of tyranny and terrorism to
make our
own nation safer and bring peace to people across the
globe," Marc
Racicot, chairman of the Bush re-election campaign told
delegates in
remarks in which he called Bush "one of the greatest
leaders our
nation has ever known."
In Nashua, N.H., on Monday, Bush told supporters that the
convention
was getting underway "with positive speeches."
"It's going to be a positive experience for the people of
this country
to see what we believe. I talked to the vice president this
morning.
He's getting ready to crank it up," Bush said.
Monday evening, Bush spoke at a rally in a park in suburban
Detroit.
On Tuesday, Bush will speak to an American Legion
convention in
Nashville and campaign in Iowa and Pennsylvania. He arrives
in New
York Wednesday night for his Thursday night acceptance
speech, after
which he will return to the campaign trail.
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