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

To: H-Man who wrote (10003)	3/26/2004 7:09:10 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 81568

Aznarization _________________________ By Patrick Sabatier Liberation FR Wednesday 24 March 2004 truthout.org Does Bush risk being "Aznarized" from now to November 3? That is, to pay at the ballot box for having played with the truth? We're not quite there yet. However, the succession of former advisors' revelations that spit into the anti-terrorist soup the White House has been serving to Americans since September 11 begins to seriously erode that image of a frank, inflexible, and farsighted "War President" on which Bush is betting his reelection. In a country decreed to be in a state of war, the citizenry's trust in their President, in his honesty, and above all, in his competence, count more than ever. However, the question that is asked ever more openly on the other side of the Atlantic is simple: by claiming to make war on terrorism by the war against Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, did Bush and his men mistake the target? Still worse, did they fool their own citizens and their allies? By wrongfully accusing Iraq of links with Al-Qaeda and of possession of forbidden weapons, did Bush act with cynical calculation or culpable blindness, just like Aznar designating- wrongly- ETA the evening of March 11? Could his Iraqi obsession have even blinded him to the Islamo-terrorist threat before the attack against the Twin Towers? The same causes may not produce the same effects. The 2004 presidential race will probably depend first on the economic situation and the candidates' respective electoral war chests. However, foreign policy and security questions will play a role they have not enjoyed for a long time. It's not good for Bush, therefore, that more and more Americans may be asking themselves, as the rest of the world has already done, whether he didn't make a big mistake. Or whether he lied. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation: t r u t h o u t French language correspondent Leslie Thatcher.