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To: JHP who wrote (216640)	1/25/2003 9:57:58 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 436258

John Kerry is a legitimate war hero UNLIKE our current president has never fought in a war... Mr. Bush is embarassing this country around the world (and antagonizing our allies)...Consider how he is handling the decision to go to war in Iraq... Message 18489940 <<...In any event, the president’s recently displayed impatience and undisguised hostility ill suit a leader who, thanks to congressional abdication, holds the power of war and peace in his own hands. War is too serious a matter to be decided by someone who lacks the keen intelligence and mature judgment to understand the situation fully and to weigh the pros and cons of alternative policies wisely. George Bush is doing nothing to reassure the public that he has what it takes to be a responsible foreign policy maker. Worse, he appears to be acting under the greatest sway of advisers – Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, and their ilk – who have long been obsessed with attacking Iraq no matter what Saddam might do to placate them and who manifest a megalomania for remaking the Middle East in their preferred image. Their fantasies of transforming Iraq into a liberal democracy abide light years away from any realizable reality: Iraq lacks all the ingredients for baking that cake. If Americans allow themselves to become lodged in Iraq, ruling it directly or through a puppet regime, they will soon rue the day they plunged into that oil-rich but politically hopeless quagmire. If U.S. occupiers cannot deal successfully even with the rag-tag clans and warlords of Afghanistan, they won’t stand a chance in the treacherous ethnic, religious, and political cauldron known as Iraq. Ultimately, the most troubling aspect of the administration's present rush to war is its failure to treat the question of war and peace as the grave issue that it is. War consists of many horrors, most of them spilling onto wholly innocent parties. It ought never to be entered into lightly. Indeed, it ought always to be undertaken only after every decent alternative has been exhausted. We are far from having exhausted every good alternative. To allow more time for the inspections to proceed promises a far better ratio of benefits to costs than going straight to war...>>