"Its troubling that the rush to present a case for wmds would yeild such flagrant and petty political backstabbing and coverup...dont look good at all. "lets coerce these folks into providing us with an excuse to invade!" is not attractive."


Lets walk in another mans shoes for a minute there Chively.

Lets get our imaginantions out and work with a similar scenario.


Lets say where you live there is a known level 3 Violent and sadistic sex offender from another neighborhood coming to your neighborhood and raping children. He leads a ring of people that are known to be targeting kids. You know his name where he used to live. The police are looking for him.
Your entire family and all your friends familes live in your neighbor hood. You feel it is your responsiblity is to protect your children and hopefully the other kids in the neighborhood.
The police are pretty sure they are on the trail of the sex offender but have no idea if and when they will catch him. Now you also have another level 3 sex offender named Joseph Duncan living in a near by neighborhood. He has attacked several kids in the past. He is known to be curently paying other people to attack and rape kids in even another neighborhood. You have information from a variety of sources that Duncan intends to do your family harm given the opportunity. You go to the police and the other neighborhoods and ask for help dealing with this guy. They say no thanks it is none of our business and besides he is a great customer of ours. The police say we have to wait until we can prove that he has commited a crime against you specifically. Even though he has paid people to attack other families in another neighbor hood who cares? Duncan does several TV interviews and calls you out saying you are a coward and he will kill you and your whole family given the opportunity. Even though there is direct evidence that he has raped and tortured his own children they will do nothing. What would you do ? Would you continue to chase after the first guy and ignore Duncan because he has not actually done anything to you yet. Then turn your house into a fortress and hope that Joseph Duncan stays away? How would you feel if you did nothing and Duncan raped one of your kids?
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