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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: rrufff who wrote (26625)10/2/2004 3:02:02 PM
From: upanddown  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
I believe that Kerry, Clinton, Gore or Lieberman would be exactly where Bush is today, making the same mistakes, making it up as he goes along.

There is some truth in what you say, up to a point.

I think any president would have concluded that, after 9/11, target number one was the country that had sheltered Al Queda, Afghanistan. The tactical error to let Bin Laden escape from Tora Bora also could have happened under any president.

Here is where we part company. A president with the right judgment might have decided to hotly pursue Bin Laden, into Pakistan if necessary. He would have kept relentless pressure on the real enemy. He would have enlisted an vast international coalition to wage a silent, covert war against radical Islamic terrorism around the globe, including places like Chechnya and Indonesia.

There is no evidence that any president other than Bush would have virtually abandoned that effort and diverted enormous resources to Iraq. Another president would not have been dragging along his father's baggage while surrounded by influential aides exhorting him to go after Saddam NOW.

That mistake in mid-2002 was the most critical of the Bush presidency. He was not a prisoner of events at the time. He created his own path thru his own decisions. It didn't have to happen since it was irrelevant to a war on terrorism and eventually proved to be counter-productive to that effort.

If Bush had made the right decision then, he would be coasting to a second term in a wartime environment. That wrong decision has instead created a horrible mess and convinced me that he simply does not have the right stuff.
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