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Old 04-15-2006, 09:11 AM   #17
Undertoad
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Originally Posted by tw
George Jr has considered a 1st strike nuclear attack - Pearl Harbor style - which he personally characterized as speculation. He does not even deny it. Speculation by an administration with such a long history of lying that any responsible military man should be worried!
These comments on "speculation" are a serious mis-reading of the story.

The administration is not speculating. The administration is saying that Seymour Hersh is speculating, or that people are speculating when they are speaking to Hersh.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12252300/from/RSS/

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President Bush said Monday that force is not necessarily required to stop Iran from having a nuclear weapon, and he dismissed reports of plans for a military attack against Tehran as "wild speculation."
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