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To: GST who wrote (191704)	7/14/2006 10:33:22 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

No, it was an extremely low priority from a war on terror standpoint. What's your evidence to support such a statement? You've never been there.. You've never poured through thousands of Iraqi Intelligence documents, many of which detail their involvement with terrorist groups of all kinds, INCLUDING AL QAI'DA.. Just because Saddam was pretty savvy about making sure his fingerprints could not be directly linked to actual terrorist acts, there is MORE THAN SUFFICIENT evidence that his regime was involved in training and orchestrating terrorist acts. I personally saw accounting slips for the purchase of car bombs to be used against Saudi Arabia and a number of documents detailing involvment with Senior Al Qai'da leadership like Zawahiri. No.. you were not there. You did not see. You can not comprehend. Hawk

To: GST who wrote (191704)	7/14/2006 11:26:41 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

Reality Bites Is the Bush administration capable of facing the world's problems, much less solving them? By Fred Kaplan Updated Thursday, July 13, 2006, at 7:13 PM ET Donald Rumsfeld. Click image to expand.Donald Rumsfeld The world seems to be falling apart, and the designated powers are fumbling at the controls, unsure which levers spin, which axes in what direction. The metaphor is a bit of a stretch; no country or alliance could command the planet, like an orchestra conductor or a god, regardless of how clever its leaders might be. Still, it's horrifying to scan the full horizon of disasters—in the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, East Asia, South Asia, all the simmering hot spots on the verge of boiling over—and to realize that no one in charge knows what to do. It's a perfect storm out there, each crisis feeding into the others yet at the same time laden with unique origins and features, demanding unique approaches and solutions. George Marshall himself would have a hard time keeping his grip. The United States is hardly the only country at fault. Yet by its claims ("the sole superpower," "the indispensable nation," "we're an empire now") and by the objective facts (we are closer to being those things than any other country is), it does have the leverage—some would argue, the responsibility—to organize, mediate, and lead the way toward some solution.... slate.com =========== Answer to question: no. Send in the adults. Hey, maybe he'll get Clinton to go to the ME.