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

To: E. T. who wrote (555296)	3/23/2004 9:50:50 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 769667

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To: E. T. who wrote (555296)	3/23/2004 12:37:51 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Your consistent total lack of respect for honesty is in your every argument and position. President Bush formulated a coalition based upon the goal of removing Sadam from Kuwait. Reasonable people would have expected that the total humiliation and defeat of sadam would have led to his downfall. Yes it was not anticipated just how cowered sadam had made the Iraqis by 1991. And today President Bush judged just as your hero the rapist that sadam had wmds. He acted and sadam is gone and that is good. Both Presidents Bush respected honesty and were men of their word. Your hero the rapist was a liar and is a liar and like you had no respect for honesty. And I've seen what I consider to be connections between sadam and terrorism. I have no doubt you will lie to yourself and find any stupid reason to not believe in any connection. That is the way with liarocrats, idiots and elitist toads(ET).

To: E. T. who wrote (555296)	3/23/2004 5:34:14 PM
From: Gus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

You're incoherent. 1) The first Gulf war coalition was built around defending the principle of post-Cold War territorial integrity. That's why it was popular. But that coalition would not have supported regime change in Iraq after we kicked out Iraq from Kuwait. 2) Regime change was a second-term issue that needed a different coalition because it was very unpopular, but Clinton won in 1992. Despite the fact that Saddam Hussein was mortally wounded politically after the 1991 Gulf War, Clinton pursued an ineffectual UN sanctions policy that allowed Saddam Hussein to recover. It also followed a flaccid diplomatic policy that allowed Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda to grow and flourish such that at the end of 8 years of the Clinton administration, we were faced not only with renewed threats of secular terrorism from Iraq but also new religious terrorism from Al Qaeda.