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

To: American Spirit who wrote (28049)	6/3/2004 1:23:51 AM
From: zonkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

ROBERT KUTTNER Bush the war leader losing key battles By Robert Kuttner \| June 2, 2004 WHETHER YOU supported the US invasion of Iraq or opposed it, you have to be impressed by the Bush administration's sheer incompetence. That issue, and not the wisdom of the Iraq war itself, should be John Kerry's trump in his claim that he would run a more effective foreign policy. Indeed, it would be hard to run a less effective one. Assume that the issue of whether to topple Saddam Hussein was a close question. The man was a ruthless dictator who engaged in mass murder. He refused to cooperate with UN weapons inspectors even though this was the condition that allowed him to stay in power after he lost the Kuwait war. Some sensible people, such as former Clinton national security aide Kenneth Pollack, argued for "regime change" on grounds that Saddam was uniquely brutal and likely to acquire, and even use, nuclear weapons. Quite apart from whether this goal made sense, the bungling of its execution by Team Bush is unsurpassed in the history of American foreign policy. The advocates of overthrowing Saddam inside the administration were an incompatible melange of people hoping that a "forward strategy" of aggressive military engagement would spread democracy, people covetous of Iraq's oil, and those who hoped that a changed Iraq would advance peace in Israel -- that the "road to Jerusalem ran through Baghdad." Yet in the same administration were opponents of "nation building" and advocates of a more flexible military who did not want to become bogged down in long occupations. These worthies never sorted out their differences. more->http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/06/02/bush_the_war_leader_losing_key_battles/