Re: Bush - Kerry bio comparison GOOD

From: Smarty pants (bushlies_at_whitehouse.now)
Date: 08/07/04 

Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 15:57:35 GMT

"Harold" <hcbrashears@netscape.com> wrote in message
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> In fact, I think we did convince the security council, with the
> exception of France. It is possible that Germany and Russia would
> have held out if France had not, but I doubt. Since France was making
> a lot of money from Iraq, and had contracts in place with Saddam to
> make even more when UN sanction would be lifted, the chance of France
> endorsing the US invasion was always zero, barring guarantees from the
> US that the French cash flow from Iraq would be undisturbed.
>
> Regards, Harold (Capitalist Pig)

No, we didn't have a majority of the security council behind us, much less
France. What we did have going into those negotiations was the world's
sympathy and an unparalleled degree of international cooperation.

It wouldn't be easy for any government to respond effectively to 9/11. The
Bush administration was faced with going after small groups of individuals
scattered worldwide. Because of their structure, al Qaeda could only be
attacked by identifying their individual cells and going after them
one-by-one. In order to do this, we needed the cooperation of any and all
nations in which they might find refuge and the services of all intelligence
agencies worldwide. Moreover, we needed time to build an intelligence
network of our own to meet this non-conventional challenge.

How our government could think that bombing Iraq or any other country into
submission would further this cause is beyond me and made no sense to most
of our nation friends, including Germany, France, Canada, and Mexico. By
approaching the U. N. with a closed mind we pissed away a great advantage,
and now face a problem as serious as the terrorist threat itself; the
world's mistrust and scorn.

This represents a diplomatic failure of monumental proportions resulting in
a worsening terrorist threat, a tremendous waste of lives and resources, and
a quagmire that will haunt us for at least a decade. What were they
thinking? How could they have been so stupid?

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