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

To: Doug R who wrote (463878)	9/24/2003 7:37:04 AM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 769670

wmd and capability to deliver via rockets i believe was the subject.. They were saying he is not a threat to fire wmd into their neighbors... I didn't come away with the idea that chemical weapons could not be taken out of Iraq and transported to another country. Didn't we destroy some type of launch for rockets from Iraq several years ago... ?

To: Doug R who wrote (463878)	9/24/2003 8:24:21 AM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Have the Democrats lost their minds? Bill Murchison September 23, 2003 The custom among many has long been to ignore, where feasible, the mental belchings of the senior senator from Massachusetts on the theory that, ah, what's the use? What can anybody do anyway about Teddy Kennedy -- a figure large, literally, on the Washington scene and endowed with a supernaturally powerful surname? Then comes Kennedy's poisonous claim that President Bush hoaxed us on Iraq. How do you ignore this stuff? You have to talk about it and, more depressingly, about what it means. "There was no imminent threat," Kennedy told the Associated Press. "This was made up in Texas, announced to the Republican leadership that this was going to take place and was going to be good politically. The whole thing was a fraud." Now, there's a great way to make sure the world takes seriously American professions concerning Iraq's future: Just have Ted Kennedy declare the war a politically motivated fraud. And while we're at it, wouldn't the senator like to add, for consistency, what about impeaching Bush? Wouldn't fraud rate among those "high crimes" for which the Constitution holds even presidents accountable? The really sad part about such rhetorical swill as Kennedy hand-mixes by formula is its resemblance, in flavor and savor, to the party's blue-plate special on Iraq. Democrats seem largely to have decided their meal ticket mandates bashing the Iraq war whenever possible. Democratic presidential candidates vie to see who can sound less supportive of the administration's efforts to stabilize and pacify a country ravaged for two decades by murder and oppression -- a country agreeable with, if not complicit in, anti-American terrorism. Has the Democratic Party lost its mind or just its integrity? The question urgently needs confronting -- by independents, Republicans and, most of all, Democrats. The Kennedy episode is a marvelous case in point. Kennedy shoots off his mouth. House Republican Leader Tom DeLay rightly complains that Democrats have "spewed more hateful rhetoric at President Bush than they ever did at Saddam Hussein." Sen. John Kerry promptly changes the subject, calling DeLay a "bully." Why, just look at the way he intimidates the Texas Legislature over redistricting! Redistricting? Beg pardon? Wasn't Iraq the subject at hand -- that and the Democratic track record on same? When it comes to Iraq -- as far as the party's presidential candidates are concerned (Joe Lieberman being a frequent exception) -- the success of Iraqi reconstruction takes a back seat to stripping votes from Bush. First things first, apparently -- politics over policy.

To: Doug R who wrote (463878)	9/24/2003 9:47:00 AM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Al-Qaeda the winner: Beazley By Don Woolford September 24, 2003 OSAMA bin Laden and al-Qaeda have been winners from the Iraq war, former Opposition leader Kim Beazley said tonight. Mr Beazley said the removal of Saddam Hussein gave al-Qaeda the opportunity to operate freely in Iraq and the war had taken pressure off Afghanistan and Pakistan. The former defence minister, who lost a Labor leadership challenge against Simon Crean in the middle of the year, said in a Perth lecture United States forces in Iraq were a magnet for anti-American Jihadists through the region. "It is probable that Saddam's security services had communication with al-Qaeda from the time of the organisation's foundation," Mr Beazley said. "It is also true that bin Laden made supportive remarks about Hussein in the lead up to the war.