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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (195204)	10/23/2001 8:30:20 PM
From: E. T.	Respond to of 769670

"Monday morning hindsight is easy for those talking heads who never said word while events were occurring." Not true, there was of plenty of debate at the time, you just weren't listening. If I have the time I'll do a NYT search for an article from 1989-90 I read an article specifically on how the administration was dropping the ball and leaving Iraq to its own devices, which the writer felt was a mistake. Also Margaret Thatcher said, "They should have surrendered their equipment, the lot. When you're dealing with a dictator, he has got not only to be defeated well and truly, but he's got to be seen to be defeated by his own people so that they identify the privations they've had to go through with his actions. And we didn't do that."