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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (27041)	1/18/2005 11:15:46 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

I agree wholeheartedly. How about Michael Moore? Good name recognition, core constituency, shows well in front of a camera.

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (27041)	1/19/2005 12:40:09 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

I don't know about that Dipy. Voting for the authorization to use force in Iraq shouldn't disqualify a candidate. One needs to speak softly but carry a big stick. Taking away the stick takes away the leverage you need to deal with the Saddams of the world. But that said, Saddam was not our special project. Saddam was a problem of the entire world. We needed to work in concert with our allies. But beyond that we needed to underscore the war on terror by getting to Al Qaeda and bin Laden. One of the reasons that we attacked Iraq was so that Saddam couldn't pass off WMD to a terrorist. But there are WMD all over the world. Iran, Pakistan, the Former Soviet Union, Korea and in the cracks and crevices in between. We cannot clean up every possible source of WMD, and in the case of Saddam he had none. We need to go after the folks that have designs to use WMD on the US. No one has demonstrated that Saddam had capability or design on the US. Certainly we all know that bin Laden has the design. Wouldn't it be prudent to strike at the head of the serpent rather than at the tail? Orca