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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: Dan B. who wrote (77042)6/12/2006 10:58:35 AM
From: CogitoRead Replies (1) of 81568
 
>>It's time you realized that a whole mess of coalition nations agreed with the Iraq war, despite what some other nations had to say. So what? It is about a widespread agreement to respond.

Bush should simply replay the Stones' "Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood."

Bush's intentions are, perhaps to emulate Reagan with "Axis of Evil" being akin to "Tear Down that Wall."

His further intentions are to incentivize evil to back off, and I would think, to open the doors to inspection of allegedly innocent proceedings.<<

Dan -

The nations who joined the coalition did so for a variety of reasons. A combination of pressure and "incentives" was applied. For a lot of smaller countries, it always seems like a good idea to keep the U.S. happy. The idea that they all joined because they were convinced the case for war was legitimate is simply naiive. Even if they did believe the case made by the U.S., as we've seen, the case was at largely based on misinformation.

Bush's intentions may actually be benign, as you believe. It's quite apparent that you have a strong interest in believing in the Bush's fundamental goodness. But Bush doesn't make the decisions alone. The core neo-cons in his administration are the ones pulling the strings, and their intentions are questionable.

- Allen

PS: Bush's version of the Stone's song is "Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderestimated".
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