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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR

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To: PartyTime who started this subject1/21/2003 4:13:39 PM
From: Fangorn   of 25898
 
A Liberal's Case for Bush's War
By Michael J. Totten
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 8, 2003

The war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan was anything but an intellectual’s war. If
ever in American history a military response was a no-brainer, this was it. Three words explained
why we fought: they attacked us.

Iraq is dicier. On the one hand, Saddam Hussein’s reign of terror is self-evidently evil and a menace.
Less obvious are the reasons we should go to war with him now as opposed to, say, North Korea,
Iran, or Saudi Arabia. Or, as some would have it, with nobody. The rationale behind it is complex
and controversial, and it took Clinton Administration official Kenneth Pollack more than 500 pages
to explain it all in The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq. This is an intellectual’s war.

the rest of this article is at

frontpagemag.com
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