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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Sam who wrote (27668)2/3/2004 1:09:26 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793623
 
What I'm talking about was that the Iraq was was not done to satisfy any political demand; it was one helluva political risk, any way you slice it. I do not recall Bush running the midterms on the Iraq war; the country's attitude as a whole could be summed up as, "well, if you say it's necessary....". There was no war fever in the country. I also think that the planners were not morons, and in their careful avoidance post-war predictions I heard genuine (&rational) uncertainty about how the war and post-war was going to play out.

I think the "it was done for the election" deserves to be put with "it was all for oooooiiiiillll!". Slogans that people predisposed to distrust Bush think must be true, even if the evidence doesn't exactly fit.
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