Reply #50: Kerry was tooting his horn that Bush didn't read the Intel

[CWebster]

assessment until it was revealed that Kerry didn't read it either.

It is all garbage. We knew that Iraq wasn't threatening anyone (except maybe giving money to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers--so Israel had a gripe), no surrounding countries were up in arms. There was no 911-al-Queda connection, there was no yellowcake from Niger, there were no portable labs--they were trucks to blow up balloons, the aluminum tubes story was bogus. We knew that Saddam did not kick out the Inspectors. We even knew that there was a question about whether Saddam actually gassed his own people and that the time it occurred was when we were buddies, supplying him with the gas. We knew they lied to go to war in Desert Storm, that the incubator story was crap, that Kuwait was stealing Iraqi oil, that April Gilespie gave Saddam the green light. We knew that Iraq was weakened by successive wars and years of punitive sanctions. EVERY claim they floated for months was shot down. They had no nuclear weapons. We knew the Neo-Con-Likud had ambitions to dominate the ME, we knew that Bush was lured by a vendetta against Saddam for trying to get his daddy. We knew about the oil and Haliburton. We knew about the defense industry and the trillions lost in the pentagon's black hole while our social structure was starved.

We knew all this. How could Kerry claim to not know?