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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: steve harris who wrote (519784)10/10/2009 2:08:38 PM
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>> Libya comes to mind, more than "empty".

Absolutely. The Bush administration was quite busy prior to 9/11 working on a number of important foreign policy initiatives. 9/11 obviously had a slowing effect on some.

Libya was a fairly long-term project that would NEVER have happened without the Iraq War (which scared the living shit out of Qadaffi); in the early months of the GWB presidency not only were they working on NK, but serious steps had been taken toward eliminating ABT and insuring CTBT would not be ratified under his presidency (Obama, foolishly, supports CTBT), furthering the Nunn-Lugar initiatives to prevent terrorists access to nuclear materials (which had absurdly been stagnated), and substantial work on chemical and biological weapons verification programs.

A lot was happening and to claim the rhetoric was "empty" is absurd.
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