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To: Ilaine who wrote (80828)	10/26/2004 10:17:45 AM
From: MulhollandDrive	Respond to of 793896

Kerry's leaning on this story because it's a classic double-bind for Bush, damned if you do, damned if you don't. Nobody can deny that the explosives are gone. Nobody knows where they went, or when ( I do have a hard time believing this, BTW, there must have been satellite surveillance. And the people analyzing the surveillance photos must have been frantic. But we probably would rather not tell Zarqawi anything he doesn't already know about the whereabouts.) yes, and this is the kind of arm chair quarterbacking by kerry during time of war that should be thoroughly discredited Did we go in as soon as we could have? So many things to balance -- was it wrong to ask the UN for the OK? If UN had given OK, Turkey would have given OK. Another Kerry double-bind for Bush - not bombing Zarqawi's camp until the war started. Should we have just shot up his camp while playing the waiting game with the inspectors and Saddam? Would it not seem like an act of war? Jumping the gun? Counterproductive? "so many things to balance" yes, assuming we must seek UN approval before acting in our national defense.. i think that's wrong. and i think it's because we played the waiting game with the UN that we are now facing a more formidable, well armed insurgency....saddam was given fully 6 months to plan for the invasion, to disperse weapons to his loyalists , our waiting, seeking UN approval has cost lives kerry has offered nothing wrt pre-war planning...except 'more of the same' (UN involvement) (just watched kerry dissemble on the news yet again in a campaign speech about how the weapons 'disappeared' after we invaded iraq)