The Liars on Hardball..

[Postman]

Nothing like stacking the deck in favor of the rightwing, eh Chris?

The Liars Club (aka-Republican Party) insists that the smoking gun of an American city going up in a mushroom cloud was not what prompted (i.e. scared the shit out of) them to vote for going to war. Yeah, right. I've got a bridge in Brooklyn for sale too.

Maybe technically they are correct. They wanted a war regardless of the evidence. It was the fence-sitting Democrats who needed to be "convinced" that Saddam had a nuclear capability in order to vote for war.

Evidence, schmevidence. The Liars Club had their conclusions already drawn up, they just wanted any scrap of b.s. intel to back up it up.

[FlashHarry]

1. Continue here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=57891&mesg_id=57891&page=

[acmavm]

2. Of course is was the spectre of a mushroom cloud that turned the tide.

After 9/11, that was an idea that was easy to sell to the American public. We'd seen a terrible tragedy in New York City, so they sold the nightmare scenario to the rest of the country. And they bought it. It would never have worked if they tried to sell the Invasion by saying we needed to rid the world of an evil dictator.