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To: Alighieri who wrote (184000)3/3/2004 9:22:23 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1574129
 
Al,

re: ‘People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president’s policy of pre-emption against terrorists.’

Taken with the following statement, it's much what we have been arguing all along. Bush used 9/11 to overthrow an old family nemasis, which also happened to coincide with the neocon world dominance strategy. He discounted the cost in lives and budget deficits.

"Bush arguably has committed the greatest strategic blunder in modern memory. To put it bluntly, he attacked the wrong target.

I wonder... If 9/11 hadn't happened, Bush might not have been a bad President. Who knows, just speculation. But 9/11 gave him the power/capability to be the disaster he has become.

What would the country be like right now if 9/11 had somehow been stopped? And how did we allow several horrid hours in our history to change us so much?

John



To: Alighieri who wrote (184000)3/3/2004 12:57:36 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1574129
 
Al, from the article:

In June 2002, U.S. officials say intelligence had revealed that Zarqawi and members of al-Qaida had set up a weapons lab at Kirma, in northern Iraq, producing deadly ricin and cyanide.

This can't be right. Al Qaeda was never in Iraq, nor was any chemical weapons plant. After all, we have your daily cut-n-paste posts to prove it, no? <G>

Tenchusatsu



To: Alighieri who wrote (184000)3/3/2004 1:18:44 PM
From: hmaly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574129
 
Al Re..But NBC News has learned that long before the war the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself — but never pulled the trigger.

Just as NBC knows full well that our troops were stationed on the Kuwait border, and there were UN inspectors in Iraq, which could have been endangered, depending upon how Saddam reacted.


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