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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (150334)	11/1/2004 9:25:39 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

That's your opinion....IMO, Bush did what any prudent President would have done in light of the intel he was receiving and lessons learned from 9/11.

To: Michael Watkins who wrote (150334)	11/1/2004 11:55:56 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Fact: Inspectors would never have gotten in on the ground in Iraq if not for military threat. Saddam had kicked them out years before. Fact: Saddam was a horrible dictator who's hero was Joseph Stalin. He murdered for pleasure and power. Fact: The world is better off without Saddam Hussein in power. Fact: Numerous U.N. officials with ties to governments opposed to Saddam's removal were receiving large bribes from the oil for food program. Fact: Saddam Hussein violated 17 U.N. resolutions. Fact: President Bush gave Saddam and the U.N nearly a year to find a solution. All Hussein had to do was leave the country and take his millions to some island paradise. He chose not to, he chose to violate one U.N. mandate after another. Including the final "face serious consequences" one. Fact: The military loved his "mission accomplished" deck flight landing. It was done for the troops and they enjoyed it tremendously. Just like they will enjoy seeing him elected by the largest margin in military voting history. The reality is the appeasers who were willing to let the killing fields of Iraq continue, allow a brutal dictator to stay in power, let the freedom of 25 million rest on their fear, their inaction, their trepidation, and their inability to see evil for what it is were totally wrong. History will see the liberty of Iraq as a defining moment in the Middle East, a time when millions of people took that first big step toward freedom.