Dan Rather Commentary

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Dan Rather's radio commentary today was blunt. He notes that no proof nor indication exists that Saddam Hussein is a threat to US security. But then even the CIA director was forced to admit that. And yet George Jr decided, in secret, to declare Osama bin Laden as a lesser threat. No matter that bin Laden declared war on the US and American allies - and attacks. Saddam threatens no one, attacks no one, and yet is more dangerous? If George Jr learned history, then he also knows the same attitude towards Castro is what made Castro so popular in Cuba.

Last February, in secret, George Jr ordered that bin Laden was no longer America's enemy #1. That honor was bestowed on George Jr's original target - the target before George Jr was even president. George Jr's original objective was to correct mistakes made by his father's administration. They include many who served in both administrations. They protected Saddam by doing champaign celebrations rather than doing what polictical types are suppose to do during a surrender. Those same political types got us ensnared in an Iraqi morass after 1991 - no fly zone, protect the Kurds, protect the Shia, protect Kuwait, keep massive military forces in the Gulf that only promote hatred by and recruits for Osama bin Laden, et al.

Osama bin Laden is not a threat to the US, according to our President. Saddam was and is again the number 1 threat to US. Same man who did not even know what the Oslo Accords were about (during the election) is confident that Saddam is planning to attack the US. Does he really need proof? He is George Jr. That alone is all he needs to know that Saddam Hussein is a threat - no matter what the CIA or all American allies say. Reality be damned. George Jr just did not want us to know what he knew in February 2002. That Osama bin Laden is not a threat to the US but that Saddam Hussein is. He had to keep it a secret until we could believe his little myth.