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

To: Machaon who wrote (505119)	12/6/2003 7:06:51 PM
From: David Howe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Robert, I agree with this statement and the basis of your post on this subject. Obviously the world is a better place without Sadam in power, and, the civilized world is better off now that we are actively pursuing terrorists and the countries that assist them. << You are typical of the Democrats who said that Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda were not threats to America prior to Sept 11, 2001, even though they had constantly attacked American interests around the world. >> IMO, Dave

To: Machaon who wrote (505119)	12/6/2003 7:08:58 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Bush was totally AWOL on terrorism prior to 9-11. He quashed the FBI's investigations into Saudi funding, obsessed on the useless boondoggle SDI, didn't say a single word about terrorism when in Europe, disbanded Clinton's counter-terror programs to start from scratch, ignored warnings of imminent hijackings on 8-5 and let Saudi VIP's including Bin Lauden family members out of the country right after 9-11 without even beng interrogated. You tell me who's soft on terror. Bush is just a Monday morning quarterback. Bushies had one major reason for invading Iraq by themselves. OIL. If Iraq did not have oil, they'd ignore them just like they have North Korea or Myammar. Bushie claims to have invaded for human rights reasons are really laughable. They concealed their real reasons by saying it was because of WMD's and Saddam's alliance with Al Qaida. They also timed the war to swipe the mid-term elections. Now we know there is no credible evidence any of that existed since the early or mid 90's. When Bush threw out UN inspectors and dissed the international community he cost this country hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives. It was completely unnecessary as we had Saddam in a tight box where he was practically defenseless. What the Bushies thirsted for was the oil. Not to share but for themselves. That invasion had been planned years before by the Cheney and Wolfwitz right-wing think tank types who hated the idea of an enemy they could easily beat having so much oil. Yes Saddam was an enemy and a menace, but an imminent threat? Not even close. Don't believe the lies. If you do, you're a dupe and a sucker.