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

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (714573)	11/22/2005 12:19:02 AM
From: trouthead	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I have never made the claim that Bush lied. He ignored dissent that questioned his assumptions. When making the case to go to war, because some country is a threat to you, you need to make that assessment more fully than we did. Having read much of the intel we had it was not a slam dunk. Did Saddam need watching? Yes. Did he need international pressure and scrutiny? Yes. A war that has cost us 200 lives and nearly 300 billion? No. It could have and should have been done differently. I am not just trying to pin blame on W. If we are going to live in a world where pre-emptive strikes are the new foreign policy we better get it right. I hope we learn that from this experience. jb