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To: Sully- who wrote (24194)	1/13/2004 4:49:19 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794315

<<What was the reason for the war in Iraq? >> He doesn't answer his own question. He provides a very lucid rationale for taking the fight to the terrorists' home turf, for war on Islamicism. He doesn't even try to make a case for Iraq. He just mentions in passing that it's only the first step. Why invade Iraq and why such a rush to do so? Nary a mention. Like so many apologists for the attack of Iraq, he leaves it to the reader to fill in the gap. True believers easily do. The rest of us would prefer a couple more paragraphs that directly answer the question that was asked.

To: Sully- who wrote (24194)	1/13/2004 4:56:05 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 794315

andrewsullivan.com OFF THE-CUFF CLARK: Is Howard Dean the only one popping off bizarre accusations against the Bush administration? I've written before that Wesley Clark is arguably far more loopy than Dean, more prone to paranoia, weird conspiracy theories, and reversals of opinion that are dizzying in scope. Chris Suellentrop has been on the trail and discovering more. My favorites: "[the president] is continuing to associate Saddam, Iraq, and the problem of terrorism. Yet the only terrorists that are in Iraq are the people that have come there to attack us." Yeah, right. Abu Nidal was on a vacation in Baghdad. "Newsweek magazine says [Osama bin Laden] is in the mountains of western Pakistan. And I guess if Newsweek could find him there, we could, too, if we wanted to." Sure, the president wouldn't want to find bin Laden in an election year. Why would he want to do that?