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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (313003)	11/28/2006 11:00:40 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1573952

"Now, can you tell me that Hillary pulled the "Bush Knew" stunt because she was doing it as an act of public service?" It depends on what stunt you are talking about. Somebody, either Bush or Cheney, knew the WMD gambit wasn't a slam dunk. Only by cherry picking the data and relying on questionable sources could a case be built. Now once the data was filtered, the case looked pretty good, which is why Congress went for it. So Bush deserved being taken to task over that, just as Johnson deserved being taken to task over Tonkin Gulf. I am a Joneser. As a result, I am pretty conflicted about government. I have seen it do great things, the Interstate system and the Apollo program come to mind. It can also do vast harm, Vietnam to name one. The Nixon administration proved to me that the Presidency is an office in serious need of a check. In principle Congress provides that, but even when Congress is on their game, they are slow to assert those checks. So I don't mind presidents being challenged for any reason. I am suspicious of our leaders, and usually only defend them in retrospect. I believe that we do best when we are restricted inside our borders. Now I also believe that the US could be a major force for good in our world. But we need to adopt a totally different mindset. Our horizons are too short, we want to nation build in months. However, it is a job of decades. And it takes a great deal of insight into the cultures we are trying to transform. At their peak, the Brits understood that. But they didn't have the resources. We do, but we don't have the understanding.