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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (155339)11/27/2002 6:08:05 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1579852
 
So you think the mission is doomed or rigged from the start?

Whatever else you say about it, the return of the inspectors was a HUGE foreign policy victory for Bush. During the campaign, he made it clear that he intended to rectify the mistakes of the previous administration in tolerating Saddam's beligerance.

We may end up in a war yet -- but we may not. Just having the inspectors back in is a major victory and certainly reinstalls some limits on what Saddam can get away with.

At this point, unless there is a particularly clear violation, I'm betting there won't be a war. But at least we'll have reinstated some kind of containment.

I'll encourage you and the other liberals on this board to go back an re-read your posts from several months ago, when you were all in a panic about the upcoming war and the Bush administration's unilateralism. The reality the administration was playing this situation like a grand piano, totally knew what they were doing, and did what needed to be done.

You may want to keep this in mind before you over-react to the next situation that crops up. It is merely the difference in having professionals running national security, vs. having the amateur hour of the previous 8 years.
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