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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth

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To: PartyTime who started this subject	4/14/2004 7:21:36 PM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (1) of 173976

Arthur Schlesinger: This is Bush's Vietnam - the wrong war, at the wrong time, in the wrong place There was no popular clamour for war. If we had not gone to war, few Americans would even have noticed 15 April 2004 argument.independent.co.uk This has been a rough time for Americans. Just a year ago, Americans and Iraqis triumphantly pulled down the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. A year later, a spreading anti-American insurgency ripped across Iraq, accompanied by Iraqi mobs mutilating dead Americans and shouting hatred of the occupiers. An American year of miscalculations and misjudgements seems to have led Iraq into a chaos bordering on anarchy. <more in commentary> Excerpt: In a democracy, elected leaders must be held accountable. The war on Iraq was a matter of presidential choice, not of national necessity. The rekindled memory of Vietnam calls to mind a highly decorated young naval lieutenant returning from Vietnam named John Forbes Kerry, who put a poignant question to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 22 April 1971: "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?''

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