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

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (29903)	6/10/2004 11:52:17 AM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 81568

Couple that with the clear evidence of over selling the threat of Saddam and you have what I think is undue influence of the almighty dollar. I tend to agree. I am disconcerted about the relationship between the VP and HAL for example. I believe there are certain types of jobs that very few companies in the world are capable of carrying out and in those cases HAL and other American companies may be the best/only candidate BUT in those cases, were I CIC, I would send a STRONG signal to my friends at these companies that they are to play their billing CLOSE to the vest. I would not be very happy having friends of mine supplying the egg my opponents would be tossing on my face. At that point they would cease to be my friends. (It is inescapable for ANY administration to become an Administration in the first place without becoming beholden at least in some part to Big $$$ interest. Kerry is doing it now, becoming what he's being PAID TO BECOME) That said, I do not discount the faulty intelligence. Keep in mind, Tenet told BUSH WMD's in Iraq were A SLAM DUNK and Tenet was Clinton's boy. NOT some "neo-con". If there were no WMD's in the first place then what was the whole UN inspector scharade[sic] thru the 90's????? A "make work project" for UN inspectors?? HAns Blix himself could not and did not say definetevly[sic again] that there were NOT WMD's. It is only in the minds of leftist Bush haters that "the whole case for war in Iraq" was cooked up by "neo-con, bushie, warmonger, oilmen...blah blah blah.... To be clear, I was puzzled by the decision to invade Iraq even with the case as stated at the time the decision was made. After having seen what we've seen, I'm even less impressed with the job Bush did in preperation. I think there was some "cooking of the evidence" and i'm not happy about that. What I'm less happy about is that we rarely seem to put "the best man forward". Bush is not the best conservative candidate nor is Kerry a the best the Dems have to offer. What is disconcerting to me is that we cannot get "the best man for the job" to step up to the plate for the most important job in the world. Who that man is, is not clear to me. But I know for sure it's NOT either of theze guys.