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

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (365131)	3/1/2003 8:35:29 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Bush has put himself in a pickle on Iraq. He started by demanding Saddam go and basically stated he's going it alone if no one else likes it. Right before the elections which was obvious as a diversion from the economy. Then he played "good cop" and went to the UN but hasn't given them much time. So now he's saber rattling again and back to where he started minus all the post 9-11 good wil we once had. Meanwhile, 7 months of jittery markets and global division, distrust and malaise, costing trillions, and Saddam is probably loving the attention. Bush should have just gone in bombing and admitted it was about oil, or took his time to build a full coalition first. Either one or the other. This approach of his has really been confusing, dishonest and wasteful. Amateurish really. Especially giving us evidence that turned out to be phony. Now I really think Bush is damned if he does or doesn't. And the world is more confused and distrustful about it than ever.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (365131)	3/1/2003 9:10:23 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769667

You are correct in that he should have incinerated Iraq last Summer-and there would be one less nest of Islamic murderers in the world. But, like the pool shooter thinking one shot ahead, or the chess player thinking 8 moves ahead, the colonization-rather than the elimination-of the disaster that is Iraq offers new opportunities from a greater position of strength. War is mostly waiting. Let the Wall Street pukes wet their pants. What, after all, are they owed, anyway? Real investors are doing just fine, because they are patient. Day-traders and short-sellers come and go, and who really cares? Let 'em eat SI...