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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: ChinuSFO who started this subject5/26/2004 11:48:13 AM
From: CalculatedRiskRead Replies (1) of 81568
 
Five Points of Reality That Bush Overlooked

By Jim Hoagland
Wednesday, May 26, 2004; Page A27

Dear Mr. President:

Your speech Monday night carried stirring visions of the change you want to bring to Iraq and the Middle East. What it lacked was more important: a clear recognition of the ever-widening gap between those uplifting visions and the explosive conditions produced in Iraq by what has become a self-defeating U.S. occupation policy. Your words lacked the minimal dose of honesty a leader owes his nation in times of crisis.

I write as someone who has supported regime change in Iraq far longer than you or your aides. I have given your policies the benefit of the doubt in some measure because of my long-standing opposition to the genocidal rule of Saddam Hussein and my sympathy for the broader reform goals you enunciate for the region. The lack of realism in Monday's speech and in the draft U.N. Security Council resolution on Iraq that your administration presented a few hours earlier make such agnosticism next to impossible now.

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ME: Another Iraq supporter turns on Bush. As a Republican, I defended Bush early in his term. I quit defending Bush in 2002 and I become a harsh critic in early 2003.

My advice to those that are still supporting the obviously inept Bush: The sooner you correct your error, the better you will feel!
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