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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (13596)	4/9/2004 12:22:38 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) of 81568

Funny how many democrats voted for military action Chinu The vote was to "authorize the president" to use military force if necessary. But at the same time that the vote was being taken, there was also a move afoot to gather a coalition, and to get the UN involved, and to try to get the weapons inspectors in country. The decision to go to Iraq was Bush's. Funny how the neocons are trying to hang the blame on Kerry and the democrats. Kerry told the president, I'm voting for the authorization to use force, but I am expecting you to work with the international community and to build consensus and a coalition with the UN forces, as your father did in 1991. This is not the same as having to ask for permission from the international community in order to protect national security as the neocons often lie about. We did not ask for permission to go to Afghanistan to get bin Laden. We had the backing of the world in that action anyway, but we didn't need the permission. Nor did we need permission to attack Iraq if national security was at issue. Our national security was never at issue, nor did we face an imminent attack from Iraq. What really irks me is that we stopped the hunt for bin Laden to go after Iraq. An action that had little support in the international community, and one that inflamed the hatred of America in the middle east, especially amongst the people of moderate Arab nations, such as Jordan, Egypt and Morocco...who in recent polls have indicated an 80 to 90% anti-American sentiment. The war on terror is a war for the hearts and minds of Muslims. So long as they see us as enemies and not brothers, the war on terror will continue. This simply feeds the fundamentalism which preaches destruction of the west. Orca

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