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

To: Howard C. who wrote (486659)	11/4/2003 3:50:46 PM
From: E. T.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in "mission creep," and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. We had been unable to find Noriega in Panama, which we knew intimately. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under the circumstances, there was no viable "exit strategy" we could see, violating another of our principles. Furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different — and perhaps barren — outcome." From Bush Sr.'s book A World Transformed, chapter 19.

To: Howard C. who wrote (486659)	11/4/2003 4:42:05 PM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

You are pre-concluding that all criminals use new guns when in fact they usually use used stolen guns. The "prints" are taken at the manufacturing site and will bear little resemblence to the majority of used firearms after as little as 200 rounds. If you read my post carefull I say a barrel is worn out after 10000 rounds and needs to be replaced. The printing matching abilities are lost after only a couple hundred rounds. Look at the scientific studies and results. They couldn't make matches the vast majority of the time. Maryland has this system and has solved zero crimes. The trace will tell you the last legal owner...not the identity of the guy who stole the gun from the last legal owner and then went on a robbery or killing rampage! The police already have the police report from the last legal owner who had his gun stolen. The printing system will tell the police the information they already know!