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Originally Posted by photon
As long as appeal to authority and other logical fallacies plague the minds of self aware primates, threads like this will continue.
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I found it kind of interesting when they found the remains of the first pilot killed in the first Gulf war.
Even though all evidence was that he had been killed, his name was brought up that he may have been held hostage by Saddam.
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Then-president George W. Bush, in a September 12, 2002, speech to the U.N. General Assembly, had cited Speicher's possible detention as part of his case for post-September 11 action against Iraq, along with allegations that Saddam was developing banned weapons of mass destruction and was sponsoring terrorism.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090802/...q_usa_speicher
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