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To: stockman_scott who wrote (798)	1/26/2004 12:08:34 PM
From: ~digs	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6763

okay, thanks for sharing i don't think of myself as a single issue voter but perhaps that's the case for me when it comes to war and peace. my belief is that anyone leading this country should have been able to foresee that this military offensive in Iraq was wrong and unnecessary this same person should have been absolutely against unilateral action. we helped to create the UN so that future tyrannical governments could be thwarted. and then once this body is perceived to be not operating within our own best interest, we cast it aside and render it useless. totally unacceptable If kerry was special, and not just 'another politician,' he would have voted against the resolution, and promptly declared the evidence as insufficient and/or tainted, causing as big of a stink as possible. Of course the authorization would have occurred anyway, but you can bet that with the way things have turned out, his having voted that way would be a major feather in his cap for this presidential bid. Why was it so obvious to people like you and I that lawmakers were being encouraged to vote for a war that was pre-meditated? Why wasn't kerry able to see the trickery? I have a feeling that a part of him did, but he wanted to believe in the legitimacy of the evidence put before him. Upon making the decision, the stroke of his pen was not swift and confident like some of his republican peers. He signed off tentatively, and with reservations. He did the conformist thing cuz he didn't have the courage to take a hard line against an action which made his stomach churn. A friend named Paul Wellstone did that. And then he promptly died. Well, now there's 500 dead american soldiers also. I simply cannot put my faith in a man who passed up the opportunity to denounce this war. I can fart around on my computer and figure out that BushCo is playing the global version of three card monte, and yet an accomplished senator can't see the light of day? he's been in washington for too long I hope the momentum swings back to Dean's favor, otherwise I'm afraid I'll be voting for another historical footnote. ..and it will probably remain that way until things get comparatively worse and the rest of this country figures out that we need a radical change in leadership