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

To: steve harris who wrote (605775)	8/18/2004 10:11:39 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

You keep changing topics. Why don't you try sticking to one issue for a while? (You are also making assumptions about 'what I believe'... all of which have been wrong thus far). For example: My personal belief is that Saddam should have been taken out in Desert Storm --- and that it was strategicly idiotic to back off. (One should not wound a bear and then leave him alive in the woods.) I also thought that it was DEEPLY shameful to call for the Kurds and Shia to rise up... promise them US help (just like the Cubans at the Bay of Pigs... but this time the promise was made on live TV by the President of the United States), then abandon them while Saddam cut them down. As far as this latest Iraq war, my opinion (based on the available information at the time) was that the war was appropriate --- but it was a VERY CLOSE CALL for me. I realized that we would risk inflaming the Middle East, boosting the recruitment of terrorists (just like the CIA warned), and that total costs to the American taxpayers would probably run around 1/2 Trillion dollars before it was all done and paid for. My belief was that because the costs and risks were nearly as high as the potential benefits... it was a 'close call' to start the war. Far better to have finished this business 12 years ago when the opportunity presented.