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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: Cogito who wrote (77118)	6/14/2006 2:34:49 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 81568

Don't you think that might have sent a different kind of message to Saddam? Maybe the man would even have stepped down. We're talking about a man who has made a very big deal out of being a man of his word. Are you telling me his word should be ignored in this one case? No, I think you should acquaint yourself with the constraints of diplomatic language. Bush was not only talking to the US and Saddam. He was also trying to pry some cooperation out of the UNSC, which was full of Saddam's payees, and trying to avoid giving the Euro-left even more ammo to hit him with. Bush has to operate in the real world of diplomacy. As the old saw goes, a diplomat is a man who is paid to lie for his country. Now, if Bush hadn't listened to Tony Blair, and had not gone the UN route, and had gone to war in 2002, then I expect the language would have been blunter and more to your liking. But as things stand, these charges of Bush lied! not only don't strike me as valid, they come across as rather childish, like a teenager accusing everybody of being a hypocrite for following social conventions.

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