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

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (461695)	9/19/2003 11:47:43 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

No...there was no US national interest at stake....

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (461695)	9/19/2003 11:51:23 AM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Hehe. DeLay was one of the biggest critics. The despot angle is clearly a fallback position. The difference between Kosovo and Iraq is that 1) Kosovo is not a quagmire, 2) Kosovo was a NATO operation, allowing us to spread the cost, 3) Kosovo is not costing the US a billion dollars a week + reconstruction, 4) Because of the tremendous cost to invade Iraq, it could not be justified on humanitarian reasons on (else we'd be invading NK and China), 5) so the bogus justification of WMD and link to 9/11 had to be made 6) unlike Iraq, the citizens of Kosovo actually want us there. It's ironic how the neocons run to the Kosovo argument, especially after arguing fervently against our intervention there, even with the myriad differences. It shows how desperate their arguments are getting...