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

To: Dan B. who wrote (455697)	9/9/2003 7:40:35 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Clinton vs. Dole on Iraq, on 60 minutes. Notice Dole's Bush-like anti-UN rhetoric and bravado, "this president means what he says", typical unprofessional swagger totally inappropriate. Senator Dole: Mr. President, can you explain what this liberal love affair with the United Nations is all about? Liberating most of Iraq in less time than it takes to pass a U.N. resolution is a remarkable triumph. But now, faster than you can say Jacques Chirac, the same old critics are claiming America should back off and let the U.N. take over. Coalition troops didn't fight and die to hand off Iraq to U.N. bureaucrats. America wants a free Iraq run by Iraqis--the very same people the U.N. didn't think were worth fighting for. Humanitarian aid, okay. But letting the U.N. dictate Iraq's new government? No way. That would be a costly and lengthy disaster. President Bush warned the U.N. would risk irrelevance. The U.N. should now understand what Saddam learned the hard way -- that this president means what he says. President Clinton: Senator, aren't you a little over the top? We were grateful when the U.N. stood with us after 9/11, when French and German soldiers joined us in Afghanistan to hunt for Osama bin Laden. You remember him. He's the one who killed our people. By the way, those French and German soldiers are still there. Prime Minister Blair and President Bush say the U.N. should play a vital role in post-war Iraq. The U.N. knows how to keep the peace, provide food, water and medicine, and help develop free governments. This will take time and cost tens of billions. Of course America and Great Britain should take the lead in the short run. In the long run, the Iraqis should stand on their own. But in between, the U.N. should play the big role. It will prove to the skeptics we're not there to control the oil or get big contracts for U.S. companies. It will give credibility to the hunt for chemical and biological weapons. As usual, I agree with Tony Blair and, I hope, with President Bush.

To: Dan B. who wrote (455697)	9/9/2003 7:44:28 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Bring back this guy!! At least he knows how to BALANCE A BUDGET!!! "Leadership is about choosing," Clinton said. "So let's give up our tax cut." Clinton said a conflict with Iraq and the subsequent rebuilding will cost many billions of dollars when the country is at a deficit. "Now when we're cutting back on everything from homeland security to education and with Iraq still to pay for, your party wants another big tax cut," Clinton said. "Never before have we had a big tax cut in times of national crisis. Lincoln didn't. FDR didn't. With over 200,000 young Americans in the Persian Gulf, we shouldn't. It's wrong and it's bad economics."