Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (105851)	7/17/2003 2:19:36 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi twfowler; Re: ""Unaccounted for", at least a sufficient amount of "unaccounted for" was enough to be a material breech." Bush's justification for war was primarily based on his repeated statements that there were WMDs in Iraq, that he knew where they were, etc. Apparently the "material breech" didn't scare the American public enough. And for that matter, it was the job of the UN (which had responsibility for the matter) to decide when a "material breech" occurred, and they were quite silent on the issue. Bush used a doctrine of "preemption" as justifying the war, but the search for WMDs came up "preempty". But the long term problem is that we are failing to pacify the Iraqis. The parallels to the Gulf of Tonkin just give another excuse to the swing voters. -- Carl