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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (147391)	10/8/2004 11:47:49 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) of 281500

..why other countries did not join as part of an indictment on the current adminstration's decision to invade Iraq -- this is not water under the bridge,.. It is water under the bridge from the standpoint of why many countries ARE NOT joining the current effort in Iraq. Note: I'm talking present tense, what is going on now, not whether we should have gone to war in 2003. people from other countries were lining up to help. My understanding is countries were lining up to offer verbal support. There are int'l troops there now and most of them (not all) have not left Kabul. The effort was sanctioned, moral, had universal support from the world. Not exactly universal. Saudi Arabia opposed it as they did the Iraq invasion. So much for the Bush-being-in-the-Saudi-pocket meme. No, there is no doubt that retaliation and flushing out would happen quickly. Speculation in media about temperature and holiday seasons was just that... idle chatter for us television watchers, a blip in the plan for the military. It has since occurred to me that I ought to have pointed out that Carter failed to respond to the kidnapping and holding hostage our diplomats and many other citizens in Iran, a clear act of war. So I don't consider it speculation that some Presidents would not have responded as aggressively as Bush following 911.

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