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Politics : HOWARD DEAN -THE NEXT PRESIDENT? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (1840)	1/12/2004 2:40:00 PM
From: elpolvo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3079

Our most important ally in the cold war with Soviet Union was Saudi Arabia wrong. it was mikhail gorbachev. time.com

To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (1840)	1/12/2004 6:37:08 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 3079

BREAKING NEWS! Army War College study blasts U.S. war on terrorism [ed: Dean was right all along!] By Will Dunham reuters.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Iraq invasion was "an unnecessary preventive war of choice" that has robbed resources and attention from the more critical fight against al Qaeda in a hopeless U.S. quest for absolute security, according to a study recently published by the U.S. Army War College. The 56-page document written by Jeffrey Record, a veteran defense expert who serves as a visiting research professor at the Strategic Studies Institute of the Army War College, represents a blistering assessment of what President George W. Bush calls the U.S. global war on terrorism. Pentagon officials on Monday said Record was entitled to his opinion, but reiterated Bush's view that Iraq is the "central front" in the war on terrorism. Record urged U.S. leaders to refocus Bush's broad war to target Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, blamed for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America, and its allies. Record said the Iraq war was a detour from real anti-terrorism efforts. Record criticized the Bush administration for lumping together al Qaeda and President Saddam Hussein's Iraq "as a single, undifferentiated terrorist threat." "This was a strategic error of the first order because it ignored critical differences between the two in character, threat level and susceptibility to U.S. deterrence and military action," Record wrote. "The result has been an unnecessary preventive war of choice against a deterred Iraq that has created a new front in the Middle East for Islamic terrorism and diverted attention and resources away from securing the American homeland against further assault by an undeterrable al Qaeda," Record wrote. Faculty at the Army War College, an academic institute run by the Army since 1901, produce analyses of military and national security issues, with scholars encouraged to take a critical look a existing policies. ...more