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

To: steve harris who wrote (717024)	12/6/2005 9:01:52 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

We were better off before the Iraq invasion. Saddam Hussein was contained and we didn't have a civil war going on in Iraq. Now, we have a civil war which threatens to spill over into Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

To: steve harris who wrote (717024)	12/7/2005 12:22:43 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769667

...The idea that the United States needed to make a military statement in the Middle East to counteract a reputation for ducking a military fight had been brewing for a while in some foreign-policy circles. Clarke and other experts cite a long list of provocations against the United States that have evoked weak responses by U.S. presidents: Carter's handling of the Iranian hostage crisis in 1980; Ronald Reagan's decision to leave Lebanon after the suicide bombing that killed more than 200 Marines in 1983; the elder Bush's lack of retaliation for the Libyan bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988; and Bill Clinton's quick exit from Somalia in 1993. Iraq, in this scenario, would become an ideal demonstration project of American resolve and military might.... Message 21948526