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To: epicure who wrote (216413)	2/5/2007 5:28:33 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Any court decision against us would embolden the Islamist extremists. That would be a worse precedent than any I've heard opposing the Iraq invasion.

To: epicure who wrote (216413)	2/5/2007 5:37:11 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The war against Iraq complies better with US law than most of the wars we've fought. To begin with, there was a Declaration of War which Congress passed overwhelmingly, 77-23 in the Senate, and 296-133. Second, we didn't need UN authorization to declare war, at the time the war was authorized, we believed that Iraq was a threat to US security. Take, as an example, the Korean War. Congress did not declare war, but Truman cited UN resolutions as the justification. I am not going to be sucked into a debate as to whether "Bush lied and people died." The people who claim "Bush lied" are looking at the same information that the rest of us look at, and that's their opinion, to which they are entitled, and there's an end to it.