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To: Lane3 who wrote (24660)	1/17/2004 12:39:49 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793718

Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has now revealed what many of us have long suspected. Despite protestations to the contrary, the President and his senior aides began the march to war in Iraq in the earliest days of the Administration, long before the terrorists struck this nation on 9/11. Karen, don't you think it's more than a little disingenuous to be "shocked, shocked" that regime change in Iraq was the policy of the Bush administration, when it was a openly declared policy inherited from the Clinton administration? Ditto for accusing Bush of lying about Saddam's WMDs when the administration believed what every intelligence service in the world believed - that he had them and he was developing more. If Clinton had gone into Iraq in 1998, as he should have, Kennedy would have been all for it. It's all partisan. As for O'Neill, he was a jerk as Treasury Secretary and he's a jerk now. He didn't get the deference he was used to at Alcoa and he couldn't deal with it. So now he pretends to the be the innocent abroad - "Who could think that my portrait of a dumb, detached President is unflattering? what a surprise."