From: Gene McAloon 

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:46:52 -0500, "Mark Hessey"
 wrote:

>
>"Adam Flinton"  wrote: Odd
ain't how Rumsfeld,
>Wolfovitz et al were pushing to take out Saddam
>> (coz it's doable) since waaaaay before 9-11, one has to wonder if the
>> link is more than a little "post facto".
>
>Regime change in Iraq has been the US foreign policy for many years - long
>before we elected an administration that executed it.
>
You mean until we got a president dumb enough to start an illegal
pre-emptive war to remove the man who had been our ally until he invaded
Kuwait.  Even Bush I had better sense.

What has Bush II accomplished? He has alienated our principle allies,
called down upon himself the contempt of most of the world and has enmeshed
himself in a quagmire from which he is now desperate to extricate himself
before the November elections knowing that his huge blunder will get him
unelected unless he gets out by summer.

What will he leave behind in Iraq?  With luck, a pro-American puppet
government that will eventually be thrown out by the Iraqis themselves and
that removal no doubt resulting in still another dictator in Baghdad.  We
can only hope it won't
be an Islamic government under Sharia law.

So, what will have been accomplished by Bush II?  The most we can hope for
is that he will get himself thrown out of the White House in November and
other than Nixon, I can think of no president in modern times who will
deserve it more. There is no excuse for a creature like Bush in the White
House. It will take years to repair the damage he has done, both abroad and
domestically.

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