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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSI who wrote (12675)	5/24/2002 6:23:30 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Between the p eoples perhaps, but countries operate out of national interest. This "friendship" crap between Junior and any other world leaders is vapor. They will do whatever they can. And so should we. There is a difference of opinion on what 'national interest' means. Whether it's short term or long term. There may be a short term benefit to our national interest by throwing tariffs on other countries that has longer term negative impacts. Tariff wars are in our national interests? Somehow the Administration came to the conclusion that it was in our national interest to claim that Cuba was exporting bio-warfare, though there is no intelligence at all that they have. The Administration claims that it's in our national interest to have a regime change in Iraq. .... In addition to those tactical concerns, some of the [Joint] chiefs also expressed misgivings about the wisdom of dislodging an aging, weakened Hussein who, by some accounts, has behaved better than usual in recent months. Their worry is that there is no evidence that there is a clear successor who is any better, and that there are significant risks that Iraq may wind up with a more hostile, activist regime.... washingtonpost.com Is it in our national interests to force a regime change in Iraq? The Administration decided to stop buying excess weapons grade plutonium from the Russians. Save money, I suppose. Previous Administrations have bought the excess material. Is it in our national interests to let plutonium sit around Russia in a less than ideal security situation subject to theft or sale to a rogue country? jttmab