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To: MythMan who wrote (289367)6/22/2004 3:34:43 PM
From: mishedlo  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436258
 
Conservative Pat Buchanan reams Bush again.

Both on Iraq and his inability to prevent proliferation on Nuclear Weapons in North Korea and Iran.

Buchanan claims that the Iraq "mess" has weakened America's ability to confront other problems now.

wnd.com
The wrong war
Posted: June 21, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2004 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

There exists "no credible evidence that Iraq and al-Qaida cooperated on attacks against the United States." ...

And so, with no weapons of mass destruction yet found after 18 months of searching, the second pillar of the president's case for war falls to earth. Iraq was an unnecessary war.

Yet, now we have 138,000 soldiers there, with casualties mounting, the cost rising and the hostility to America's presence growing. ...

In his now-famous 2002 State of the Union, President Bush named Iraq, Iran and North Korea as an "axis of evil." He vowed that America would not allow any one of the three to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

In 2003, we attacked and invaded the only one of the three that did not have a secret nuclear program. And since that State of the Union, the other two have accelerated their programs to acquire the atomic weapons President Bush said they would not be permitted to have....