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To: neolib who wrote (211313)	12/30/2006 10:13:12 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Maybe it's a belated Xmas gift from Dubya to Poppy. I can imagine Dubya saying, 'I got him for you pops.' Dubya did, after all, say that he was real pissed off that Saddam tried to kill his Dad. So there. ========== That man tried to kill my dad, says Bush By David Rennie in Washington Last Updated: 12:22am BST 28/09/2002 President Bush has publicly condemned Saddam Hussein as the man "that tried to kill my dad". Mr Bush disclosed his personal reasons for hating the Iraqi leader during a Republican fundraising event in Texas. Saddam is accused of trying to kill the first President Bush with a car bomb in Kuwait in 1993. The plot was frustrated, but triggered a United States missile strike on intelligence buildings in Baghdad. Mr Bush's comments formed part of an attempt to portray Saddam as a viscerally anti-US menace, whose overthrow is a patriotic duty for Americans of all political persuasions, in which other countries are only side-players. The high risk strategy carries the danger of fuelling talk that Mr Bush's campaign for regime change in Baghdad is driven by a desire to finish the job left undone by his father at the end of the Gulf war. • Three Democratic congressmen, travelling on their own initiative, arrived in Baghdad yesterday to plead for United Nations weapons inspectors to be given unfettered access to suspected sites, saying they wanted the crisis "peacefully and diplomatically resolved". telegraph.co.uk

To: neolib who wrote (211313)	12/30/2006 10:52:06 PM
From: SARMAN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Why construe anything more complex than stupidity behind the timing? Because I do not believe that those over paid think tanks in Washington screw up again with a bad advise. I mean, they went to war to Iraq not knowing the consequences, be it human lives, financial, power vacuum in Iraq, civil war etc. I think they should be fired and all the tax money that is being funneled to those organizations should be cut off. They are not doing their jobs, they are giving bad advise on foreign policies. They keep putting the country (USA) in the cross-hairs of fundamentalist and giving the world a good reason to hate America. It is far fetched to be just "bad timing" or stupidity. I would expect Iran, Syria, Hizbolah and Al Qaida to implement bad timing and stupidity, not the US. However, it is expected more of the US' foreign policy advisors.