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

To: geode00 who wrote (505759)	12/8/2003 2:00:23 AM
From: Jerrel Peters	Respond to of 769670

Why don't you give us a complete analysis on all the wrong things McCarthy did.

To: geode00 who wrote (505759)	12/8/2003 6:29:39 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Oh, GOODIE! MORE BUSH BASHING, LASHING AND SMASHING! Kerry takes a barnyard swing at the Crawford Cowpuke. rollingstone.com RS: It seems that the fact that you voted in support of the president's war resolution has caused you a lot of trouble in your campaign. Do you regret supporting the president? JK: What I regret most of all is the way the administration dealt with it -- the extraordinary failure of the administration to keep its promises, to be mature and thoughtful about how you take a nation to war. They misled us; they presented false intelligence to us. The president made a series of promises to us -- number one, that he was gonna make every effort possible to build a legitimate coalition. He did not -- he built a fraudulent coalition. Second, he was gonna exhaust the remedies of the United Nations and the inspection process. He did not. And third, that he would go to war as a last resort. He did not. I voted to protect the security of our country, based on the notion that the only way to get inspectors back in was to have a legitimate threat of force and the potential of using it. They took that legitimacy and bastardized it. If I were president, we would not be in Iraq today -- we would not be at war. This president abused the process. RS: Had you thought of Bush as someone whose word you could trust at that point? JK: It seems to me that we had a right to expect the president of the United States to live up to his word. It was disgraceful, one of the most egregious, fundamentally flawed moments of foreign policy that I can think of in my lifetime. RS: You were highly critical of the way they conducted the Afghanistan war, as well. JK: But that was a question of strategy, not whether we should be there or not. They had Osama bin Laden and a thousand Al Qaeda fighters cornered in the Tora Bora mountains and allowed them to escape.