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To: Bilow who wrote (174051)	11/4/2005 12:07:47 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

But I bet that history will attribute the disaster to the Republicans. If the Democrats have their way, it will.. They're doing their LEVEL BEST to undermine this country's will to win in Iraq.. It would be one thing if they were criticizing Bush and the Military's policies on how we're CURRENTLY fighting against this insurgency.. But they haven't done that.. All they do is try to go back two or three years to try and absolve themselves from any responsibility for being here in the first place, despite the fact they it was their President Clinton and his CIA director that accumulated the intelligence that Bush relied upon. And it's probably a good reason that Bush kept Tenet in his position, so he couldn't be accused of having appointed someone new to the CIA and leaving open the argument that he manipulated the intelligence. Nope.. The Democrats have even more ownership of this war because they signed a law that called for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. And Bush was obligated to do what was necessary to enforce that Act.. Bush got all of his legal ducks in a row before we came into Iraq, regardless of whether the decision was morally right or not.. He asked for, and received, authorization from a democratic Senate majority to use force in Iraq. He had UN legal authorization to "use all means necessary" to bring Iraq into compliance with its disarmament obligations under UNSC 687, signed in 1991. He waited the full 90 days that UNSC 1441 called, as well as for the UN inspectors report that listed almost 200 pages of information on Iraq's CONTINUING non-compliance.. All before he made his decision... Hawk