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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
I'm devastated. Really and truly devastated.
But also confused -- now you say the war in Iraq was to prevent use of unconventional bombs, aka WMDs, aka non-existent bugbears.* But once we found the absence of evidence for Iraqi WMDs, the Flypaper theory came out -- i.e., the Iraqi war was keeping us safer because all the terrorists were going to Iraq to kill American soldiers, instead of killing civilians in the US and its allied countries. Now, it seems, there's been another about-face. I just can't keep track anymore.
*I think the Reagan equivalent for Iraqi WMDs was the Soviet weapons in Nicaragua. Leading Garry Trudeau to the line "What do you call a Nicaraguan MiG? A Phantom Jet." Get it?
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If you're trying to get notme in as a administration spokesperson, good luck. The flypaper theory is simply the argument that terrorists going THERE isn't a bad thing. That there are still bad people here was never claimed. We keep arresting them. the ACLU keeps wanting them released saying we really shouldn't hold them until after they blow themselves up.
