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

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (653039)	10/28/2004 11:17:45 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Have you seen the video? Who has authenticated it? Who authenticated the seal? Based on what? So far, it's all interesting, but hardly proof positive. And of what? That 1/1000 of Saddam's munitions haven't been accounted for within a few days of this accusation? Give it a break.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (653039)	10/28/2004 11:21:55 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

What the demos have been hoping for for weeks is what they are now calling a "metaphor" for the entire Iraq misplanning. the weapons issue fits the bill...or is being made to fit by the relentless pounding. Bush handled it badly from the start. that gaffe about a person who doesn't get all the facts being unfit to be Commander in Chief is almost too painful to watch. What if he had explained instead that the battle plan called for moving rapidly to Baghdad to overcome the Republican Guards and to disable or capture the WMD. The fact that there was no WMD doesn't matter to this argument. They thought there was. Conventional weapons, even nasty ones, had to come in second for attention. People might be able to accept this. Instead, we have four or five different stories, including the embarrassing satellite photos of trucks in the compound a few days before the invasion...then speculation about what the trucks were doing...the same kind of speculation that led to the poor conclusions about the WMD in the first place. Bush accuses Kerry of drawing conclusions without all the info, but over the past two days the Republicans have come up with five different possibilities...without all the info.