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

To: Sully- who wrote (387686)	4/8/2003 1:04:38 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Quoting Dick Armey. August 12, 2002 "If we try to act against Saddam Hussein, as obnoxious as he is, without proper provocation, we will not have the support of other nation states who might do so. I don't believe that America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation. It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation. My own view would be to let him bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants and let that be a matter between he and his own country. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him." Before 9/11, this was the authentic voice of the GOP on foreign policy: in the post-cold war world, it's time we started minding our own business and respecting the idea of national sovereignty. Armey was behind the effort to get our troops out of Kosovo, and congressional Republicans opposed Clinton's Balkan adventure, infuriating left-Clintonian "humanitarian" warmongers like William Saletan, who ranted at war's end: "For decades, the Republican Party preached military strength in the face of foreign expansionism. But now that a Democratic president whom they despise has led the nation into war, GOP leaders have adopted the arguments of the counterculture. House Majority Leader Dick Armey, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, and Senate Majority Whip Don Nickles claim that Milosevic was open to peace all along, that the war and its casualties were our fault, that we needlessly offended Russia, and that our 'victory' is false. By forsaking their intellectual heritage just to spite Clinton, they have paid him the ultimate homage. They have allowed him, through their agency, to redefine the GOP." * In other words, Bushies are all friggin' hypocrites and phonies. The Iraq War was fought for politicaly selfish reasons. Time to seriuosly question the so-called Commander in Chief. Who's never touched an M-16 in his life.