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

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (413888)	6/11/2003 2:40:17 PM
From: gerard mangiardi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

You are wrong and not logical. The reason that the rest of the world didn't want to go to war is because the inspectors appeared to be doing a good job and had found nothing. The world wasn't fooled, just the American people.

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (413888)	6/17/2003 6:54:22 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 769670

The issue is not even WMD's it is deliberately LYING about the imminent threat to the USA, thereby giving Bushies a reason to rush to unilateral war. Bushies abused the trust of post-9/11 America and waged a war which was for THEM not us. Their oil interests and hard-right Zionist agenda. Also to steal the November elections. Top NSC professional resigns to advise Kerry Demonizing Rand Beers won't be easy for the Bush administration and its surrogates -- but they may well feel a powerful urge to try after reading today's extraordinary Washington Post portrait of the former National Security Council staffer. At age 60, following 35 years of government service that includes stints on the staff of every White House since Ronald Reagan, Beers resigned last March as special assistant to the president for counterterror. Now he has signed on as a key advisor to John Kerry's presidential campaign. In a front-page interview with Laura Blumenfeld, Beers strongly suggests that he joined the opposition because the Bush administration is dangerous to America's future. "The administration wasn't matching its deeds to its words in the war on terrorism. They're making us less secure, not more secure. As an insider, I saw the things that weren't being done. And the longer I sat and watched, the more concerned I became, until I got up and walked out." Of the need to change policy -- and obviously to replace the president -- Beers tells Blumenfeld that he "never felt so strongly about something in my life." Like Kerry, Beers didn't oppose military action against the Saddam Hussein regime, but sharply criticizes the administration's "ill-conceived and poorly executed strategy" in Iraq as well as its precipitous insistence on war without international support. "I continue to be puzzled by it," he says. "Why was it such a policy priority?" It isn't surprising that Beers was drawn to Kerry, because he shares the Massachusetts senator's critique of the fumbled Afghan war and the failure to promote real security at home and abroad. "Terrorists move around [Afghanistan] with ease. We don't even know what's going on [there]," he says. "Osama bin Laden could be almost anywhere in Afghanistan." As for the homeland, Bush's security policy suffers from what Beers calls "policy constipation." Little or nothing has been accomplished in crucial areas such as port and immigration security, the protection of cyber networks and other vulnerable infrastructure, or even the defense of obvious terror targets like chemical factories. Predictably, Republicans will jeer Beers as a registered Democrat, but they will find his experience and dedication difficult to discount. Like Kerry -- and unlike many of Kerry's conservative critics -- he served in Vietnam before entering government. Indeed, from the Republican perspective his credentials are quite impeccable, dating all the way back to the 1980s -- when he took over as NSC counterterrorism director from a Marine lieutenant colonel named Oliver North. [3:00 p.m. PDT, June 16, 2003]