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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (4894)	3/3/2004 12:00:17 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

Libya is negotiating behind the scenes to extract concessions. One day you here something is on, the next day you hear that Libyan officials retract an item of agreement reached the previous day. Libya knows very well that the US military is stretched and that they do not have the ability to strike at Libya. Hence the Libyans are bargaining hard. And the French are also involved with their sphere of influence in these negotiations. So Libya is not purely a Bush/Blair effort. It is a UN effort along with the French. It has got to do with the nuclear black market ring which the Indian intelligence broke to the world including the US intelligence some 18 months ago. Now on the issue of use of force that Kerry had voted. Off course the President should be given a free hand in determining whether to use force or not. Besides, Clinton went into Kosovo without the approval of Congress. So Bush going to Congress for approval was a joke. You think if Kerry and the majority in Congress voted against the war, Bush would have heeded the results of the vote. He has failed the test of his honoring a vote by a body. So why is he making a big deal about the Kerry vote. Kerry has said very clearly, that the President has failed to meet the test of "a President should do everything within his means to ensure that all attempts at peace have failed before committing American lives in the line of fire so that he can look in the eye of a mother and a father and tell them he did everything possible to prevent their beloved son or daughter from being sent to the line of fire." The President failed to do that. That is the issue, not Kerry's vote. Kerry agrees very strongly, that if force is necessary he will use it. He has done so in Vietnam, he has done so in the Senate. But herein lies his difference and the distinction with Bush. Kerry would use force as a last resort and Bush would use force as a first resort America is a peaceful nation and prefers Kerry's and not the Bush's philosophy of military conflict; peace through strength and not the peace of the grave.