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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (81689)10/29/2004 10:58:33 AM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (2) of 793817
 
your partisanship is showing

The case for George W. Bush's re-election can not be made. The case against him made by one of your own, Andrew Sullivan, is just too overwhelming.


WHY I AM SUPPORTING JOHN KERRY.
Risk Management
by Andrew SULLIVAN
Only at TNR Online

....the collapse of the casus belli and the incompetent conduct of the war since the liberation point in an opposite direction. If you are going to do what the Bush administration did in putting all your chips on one big gamble; if you are going to send your secretary of state to the United Nations claiming solid "proof" of Saddam's WMDs; if you are going to engage in a major war of liberation without the cover of international consensus--then you'd better well get all your ducks in a row.

Bush--amazingly--didn't. The lack of stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq remains one of the biggest blows to America's international credibility in a generation. The failure to anticipate an insurgency against the coalition remains one of the biggest military miscalculations since Vietnam. And the refusal to send more troops both at the beginning and throughout the occupation remains one of the most pig-headed acts of hubris since the McNamara era. I'm amazed that more war advocates aren't incensed by this mishandling of such critical matters. But even a Bush-supporter, like my friend, Christopher Hitchens, has termed it "near-impeachable" incompetence.....
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