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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (62848)	6/10/2005 1:48:24 PM
From: trouthead	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

About invading a country unneccessarily, about running up the deficit to do it, about all of his buddies making millions in the process, about america having the lowest standing in years, about the widening gap between the haves and have nots, about taxation, about abuses of power in this so called war on terror. You buy it and are willing to sacrifice your morals to achieve what ever perceived safety you can. Strip people, make then wear underwear on their heads, attach electrodes to their nuts. Hey it'll make us safer. jb

To: longnshort who wrote (62848)	6/10/2005 3:28:27 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

He consulted a "higher authority" because the "lower authority" was not hearing any of it: In his memoir A World transformed (1998), George Bush, Senior, wrote the following: “Trying to eliminate Saddam…would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible… We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. There was no viable ‘exit strategy’ we could see, violating another of our principles. Furthermore, we had been consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the UN’s mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, (we) could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.” Oh...too bad the sins of the father were not visited upon the son! Orca