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To: Bilow who wrote (79779)	3/5/2003 11:46:34 PM
From: kumar	Respond to of 281500

why didn't Bush decide to go to the UN with Afghanistan? 9/11... AQ... Taliban... Afghanistan : unilateral/bilateral affair, none of the UN's business.

To: Bilow who wrote (79779)	3/5/2003 11:48:12 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Okay. Why didn't the "Artillery General" get his way in Afghanistan, and why didn't Bush decide to go to the UN with Afghanistan? This was laid out in the articles at the time, plus Woodward covered it in "Bush at War." Tenet Told the "War Cabinet" that he had "boots on the ground" in Afghanistan, and that we could move with special forces. Bush went with this when Franks wanted 50,000 troops and 6 months. We didn't need no "Stinking Badges" from the UN because we knew Al Qaeda had done 911 and the Taliban refused to turn them over. Slam dunk.