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

To: jlallen who wrote (455528)	9/9/2003 4:20:08 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Jlallen, re: >>"...the decision is justified on many levels......"<< I think it's too early to say whether the decision "is" justified on many levels. You can, of course, say that there are many justifications for the decision which "MIGHT" justify the decision to invade and occupy. The secondary questions are, however, whether those decisions turn out to be wise in view of the choices we made, including the basis for our invasion, the choice to invade when we did and in the largely unilateral manner that we did, the post-invasion goals we chose, the means we are employing to achieve those goals and the ultimate "doability" of our goals. There are a whole range of assessments, choices and decisions which frame that array of questions, and the ultimate outcome will tell us how much wisdom the Bush policy makers have. If our invasion and occupation of Iraq is a failure, it will not necessarily be simply because we had insufficient reason to invade. It may be because the time of the invasion, the amount of world opinion we mobilized in advance, the manner in which we proceeded during and after the invasion and the extent to which we properly or improperly assessed the opposition, were wrong. The mounting problems and the growing number of retreats from their early assessments does not bode well for the Bush administration's wisdom in assessing our path in Iraq.