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I lost faith when I was in high school, actually, because President Bush stood on national television and said that they couldn't find any weapons in Afghanistan and that was proof that they were there.

Afghanistan? I assume you mean Iraq, and still I don't have any idea what speech of Bush's you're talking about. Can you help me out?



Could be. It was probably 10 years ago. But basically it's back when the "mobile WMD trucks" were the talking point of the day. U.N. Inspectors and U.S. Inspectors had been all over the place and had been looking for these supposed weapons but they couldn't find any. And so the President said very clearly that, no, they couldn't find the weapons or even the mobile units. But that was evidence that they were being hidden and that we should thus begin preparations for a ground campaign.




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