From: "Gary Britt" 


"Geo."  wrote in message
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> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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>
> > > I say we fire the asshole and get someone else in the whitehouse.
>
> > Well that's your right to vote as you will.
>
> thanks, I'm glad you are going to allow this..
>
> > For me, given 9/11, I want a
> > President who when faced with a tough choice comes down on the side of
> > protecting us and preventing that nuke from going off in NYC.  Saddam
had
> > plenty and I mean PLENTY
>
> Will you please get this thru your head, 9/11 and SADDAM are NOT
CONNECTED!!!

You mis-understand and your statement about 9/11 and Saddam is incorrect.
EVERYTHING is connected to 9/11 Saddam included.  Connected in the sense
that our decision making about how to handle potential threats WAS CHANGED
BY 9/11.  9/11 showed us we were no longer safe at home, and that therefore
if a perceived threat develops the LESSONS FROM 9/11 tell us to TAKE
ACTION.

So yes it is completely appropriate to state that given 9/11 when the
President must choose between protecting us now by acting on available
information or not that since 9/11 the answer must come down on protecting
us now!!

Stating all of the above is true, and any person who doesn't recognize that
9/11 changed everything for all future situations, is too dangerous to be
president.  All of the above is true, and the fact that Saddam didn't
directly have his hands in the 9/11 plot is irrelevant to the point that
"given 9/11" our thinking and decision making much change.  Get
that through your head George.

>
> Saddam was a totally separate issue, he did not attack the US,

Not yet, and given 9/11 and how that required changes in our thinking we
weren't about to give him the chance.  Thank God.

> he did not have
> the capability to attack the US

Available evidence at the time indicated he did have the capability to
attack us.  19 guys with no weapons cost us a 100 Billion dollars, 3000
lives, and 1 Million jobs.  The lesson of 9/11 was not to wait for Saddam's
19 guys armed with WMD to come here and wreak havoc.  He had PLENTY of
chances not to be invaded.  He chose to believe Bush didn't mean what he
said.  He was wrong.  Thank God.

> It is OUR rule that says innocent until proven guilty.

The application of a criminal court system rule applicable only to persons
within the USA on international terrorists and terrorist states is insane.
It requires absorbing the attack on USA soil FIRST before doing anything
about it.  You think that is the correct thing to do.  I don't.  I think we
get them over there BEFORE they kill us here.  Its not criminal court time
when you are at war, and we are at war.  Plain and simple.  Saddam had
PLENTY of chances to keep his country, he chose not to and our invasion was
completely justified because I want OUR interests protected FIRST not
stupid rules inapplicable to war.

>
> You want to change my mind, show me the WMD..
>

Not trying to change your mind George.  Just correcting your
"wrong" thinking 

Gary

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