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

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (510493)	12/15/2003 8:05:36 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Pretty much centers on WMD, as I remembered. The proper action would have been to get the inspectors in there going full force. Build the coalition. We'd have been a more tightly knit world community if we would have worked together in pursuing the goals laid out in the authorization. And we would have had a better outcome in my opinion, with less casualties and less civilian deaths. Pre-emptive war is a precarious policy. And now we find ourselves without even a single pound of WMD. Would have rather stayed the course in Afghanistan, while pursuing weapons inspections, human rights and building the coalition. The fruits of which would have also brought the family of nations closer together in the fight on terror. And we would have had the post war cooperation that would have lessened the burden on our troops. Same opinion as expressed now by Wesley Clark, Gephardt and Dean. JMHO too, Orca