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

To: tonto who wrote (525441)	1/17/2004 9:59:43 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

Why this anger? How about the news that the Bush administration has quietly withdrawn a 400-strong military team it had confidently dispatched to Baghdad to uncover Iraq's WMD (weapons of mass destruction)? Or maybe the respected Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's report charging that "administration officials systematically misrepresented the threat from Iraq's WMD and ballistic missile programs" and "there was no evidence to support the claim that Iraq would have transferred WMD to Al Qaeda and much evidence to counter it" got a few folks hot under the collar. Without real threats to justify last March's invasion of Iraq, then the Bush policy turns out to be -- at the tragically painful price of 3,000 serious American casualties -- the removal of Saddam Hussein from power. Was that the deal? Does it tick you off that while the United States spends more on health care than any other nation, we expand our worldwide lead in the number of our citizens who are uninsured -- 43 million of our neighbors? Does it get either your Irish up that the administration brags about an economy where nearly 9 million of our brothers and sisters who spent today looking for work will not have a job to go to tomorrow, as they did not have a job to go to yesterday, and that nearly 5 million Americans who want to work full-time are limited to part-time jobs? cnn.com