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To: LindyBill who wrote (78081)	2/27/2003 11:15:15 AM
From: Rascal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

200,000 plus troops on the ground. A couple of posts ago I read how several here are so very happy with President Bush finally making the good/strong/correct case for going to war. President Bush's vision thing is now (according to some) in accordance with what their own vision has been all along. I think it is Paul who said now all Bush has to do is "repeat/repeat/repeat' My number one criticism of this Administration is its incompetence. I am uncomfortable with an administration that deploys its troops and articulates a policy of preemptive strikes well before the vision thing is even envisioned let alone presented. THe biggest trouble this administration has is its lack of credibility. The changing reasons and objectives. The embarassing refinements of evidence and the lack of evidence to support yesterdays talking points. They are also to be faulted for not lining up allies and getting deals closed before starting the pot boiling. Doesn't anybody besides me find it embarassing that Turkey is negotiating with us in the press? THeir Parliament still has not approved the deal. If anybody has the details, exactly how long have our troop ships been floating aimlessly off Turkish shores? Is this a good idea for the health and morale of the fine soldiers we are about to put at risk? 200,000 troops cooling their heals for weeks not months (so far) does not increase my confidence in the Senior Military strategists. If we look backwards and see the numerous mistakes this Administration has made to date we can project what the next few months will be like. And this time the guns will be loaded and people will die. Lindy, if you were President is this the way you would have handled things? Rascal@ busofftheroad.com

To: LindyBill who wrote (78081)	2/27/2003 11:28:37 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 281500

Steve, you know we have 200,000 plus troops on the ground. If we "March them back down the Hill" we will effectively have given in to Saddam. It seems those troops were put there precisely to justify this argument, and divert discussion from the real issues at hand. I still think that deploying so quickly was a serious mistake. Fortunately for us, Saddam is not being smart, and he may get us off the hot spot after all. If he had half a brain in his head, he’d have rolled those missiles out instantly and blown them up, explaining that they didn’t think the missiles were a violation, but he’d be happy to oblige the UN. That would have left us hanging in the breeze in a major way, and the harm he’d have done to our position than he could have with 3 times that number of missiles. Maybe he won't be smart; maybe we'll be lucky. Doesn't seem like a good idea to count on it, though.