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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DebtBomb who wrote (3421)	1/23/2003 7:08:08 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 25898

Smart Hart makes a compelling case By John Nichols January 21, 2003 madison.com <<...Appearing on ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos the other day, the former senator from Colorado cut like a hot knife through the buttery debates of the moment. Hart was staggeringly strong on the subject of terrorism threats and how U.S. attack on Iraq will increase them. To wit: Hart dismissed the Bush administration's approach to homeland security as the comic endeavor that it is - and he did so with the authority that comes from having co-chaired the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century, which produced a 1999 report that predicted a terrorist attack along the lines of the 9-11 hits on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Hart made the case that a U.S. attack on Iraq would dramatically increase the likelihood of new terrorist assaults on Americans at home and abroad. The former member of the Senate armed services and intelligence committees echoed the warning he has delivered for months that the United States "is not prepared for the inevitable retaliatory attacks on this country that will occur when we invade Iraq." Hart, a highly regarded member of the Council on Foreign Relations, flatly rejected Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's suggestion that terrorist groups already have plenty of inspiration to attack the United States and will not be further motivated by a war with Iraq. While most political players are cautious about contradicting Rumsfeld's seat-of-the-pants prognosticating, Hart said the defense secretary was simply "wrong." Hart's appearance on "This Week" was a masterful performance by a senior statesman. He dismissed the absurd parameters of the current debate and pushed the dialogue further - and deeper - than it has ever gotten in Congress...>>