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

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (376885)	3/23/2003 2:10:31 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

<<I'll bet if this were Blair's war (as opposed to Bush's war) we would have gotten further with the UN though.>> Nope. The UN was a rigged game, for reasons that will soon be major news in the wake of the operations against the French client totalitarian state, Saddam's Iraq...

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (376885)	3/23/2003 2:26:05 PM
From: briskit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Hard to say what might have been. It seems to me there was negligible progress disarming Iraq for over a decade. I understand differing opinions regarding war in general and this war in particular. Here at home most of the positions are political, and would not be different no matter what the facts. Given our weak political memories, there are few negative political consequences unless we have extremely surprising developments. Even the discovery of WMDs will not sway those who are against this action (my wife says she would not have authorized a preemptive strike against Hitler, even in hindsight). But regarding this being Bush's war, Blair had to stand against more dissenting opinion and opposition at home regarding his support for disarming Iraq. In Britain and Europe it is very much his war against the opinion of those in his neighborhood. He is going it virtually alone. But he makes a very cogent case, and seems to me is doing it because he believes it to be the only course of action left to take. Especially his criticism of the UN, that they are abrogating their stated responsibilities, seem to leave little other alternative finally.