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Christian Grantham was a student activist in the late 90s and later was a consultant to domestic policy forums for the Clinton Administration as well as events for HRC and GLAAD.
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September 17, 2004

Were the real reasons for war too tough a sell to the families of the more than 1000 soldiers dead? Why haven't the President and First Lady felt comfortable enough asking their daughters to go "defend" our country in Iraq? Afterall, both Jenna and Barbara joked at the Republican National Convention that they are "looking around for something to do for the next few years ... kind of like Dad." Ironically, Jenna and Barbara are more like Dad than they think.

As Duelfer puts the finishing touches on his report, he concludes Saddam had intentions of restarting weapons programs at some point, after suspicion and inspections from the international community waned.

After a year and a half in Iraq, however, the United States has found no weapons of mass destruction - its chief argument for overthrowing the regime.
[U.S. Weapons Inspector: Iraq Had No WMD - AP - 09-16-04]

Wolfowitz: -- there have always been three fundamental concerns. One is weapons of mass destruction, the second is support for terrorism, the third is the criminal treatment of the Iraqi people.

The third one by itself, as I think I said earlier, is a reason to help the Iraqis but it's not a reason to put American kids' lives at risk, certainly not on the scale we did it.
[Paul Wolfowitz DoD Press Conference Transcript - 05-09-03]

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