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August 21, 2003What the UN bomb means...By Andrew DobbsThe bombing of the UN building in Iraq was a horrific tragedy that serves as a highlight to the biggest failures of the Bush administration. First, it clearly shows that there is little to no control of the situation in Iraq. Soldiers are being picked off at will and terrorist attacks are killing dozens. Electricity is still an unheard of luxury amidst the 120+ degree heat. People hate us more now than they did before the war. Bush sent hundreds of thousands of soldiers away from their families, sunk tens of billions of dollars and alienated most of the civilized world in the pursuit of a red herring. This alone should be enough to end any credibility his administration had left. Next, it shows that the worst of the terrorist groups are still active. We went into Afghanistan, a war that I feel was justified, and half-assed it so that Bush wouldn't threaten his then unprecedented popularity. As a result, al Qaida is still active and the Taliban has retaken part of the country. There is no sure indication that this is an al Qaida attack, though an arm of the movement active in Iraq- Ansar al Islam- is one of the most likely candidates. Bush has had 2 planks that formed the foundation of his much lauded foreign policy- Iraq and Afghanistan. Both have been failures. Along with being the first President since Herbert Hoover to have a net loss of jobs (unless something dramatic happens very quickly) and running the largest deficit in the history of the United States his domestic policy is even more pathetic. Democrats must be willing to play hardball if we want to highlight these shortcomings. As the saying goes- if you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention. Posted by Andrew Dobbs at August 21, 2003 08:51 PM | TrackBack
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Sorry Byron, but Saddam was playing footsie with Al-Qaeda. He wasn't as stupid as the Taliban but is that really so hard to believe given all his other, opens support for terror, like those $25,000 checks to suicide bombers? Oh but he's a 'secularist' he could never do that. Read the Telegraph documents that prove he was seeking to meet with them as early as 1998. And Ansar Al-Islam just happened to be fighting Saddam's Kurdish enemies in the north, and these 'safe houses' we hear about where the jihadis are gathering were all set up after our invasion...no and no, Saddam set them up for all kinds of jihadists - yes that 'secular' guy Saddam who put 'Allahu Ahkbar' on the Iraqi flag after his defeat in 91. The documents were found - "Allah forbid if we are defeated we must join the Islamic parties...and destroy documents, offices etc." I am outraged - outraged at the 'half-assed' shameless waffling of John Kerry, and the head in the sand 'maybe Iraq is better off' ridiculous remark of Howard Dean. How exactly would he have gotten the French and the Germans on board, and why would they do a better job than the Poles? If he were in charge we'd have so many more allies. Right. Funny how our allies in the war in Iraq were the same as for Kosovo sans France and Germany, but nobody ever called Clinton unilateral even when he waged war without a Security Council authorization. And Milosevic murdered far fewer people than Saddam. At least Bush is shooting back. We had the first WTC, done by the nephew of an Iraqi intelligence officer, Ramzi Yousef. Clinton treated it purely as a criminal matter, and never pursued the implications that it was a state-sponsored act of terror. We had Khobar Towers, again, capture the peons and let the Saudis chop their heads off, and never pursue the real masterminds. Don't accept the Sudanese offer to extradite Bin Laden, because well there just wasn't enough evidence and we can't throw him in Gitmo or turn him over to a 'friendly Arab country', that's what Republicans do...then the USS Cole, a few cruise missiles at a few tents, again nothing. Byron the record of the previous Administration isn't anything to write home about. At least we're fighting our country's enemies on their turf instead of waiting for them to come and kill us on ours. 'The people hate us more than before the war.' You have no factual basis for this statement at all. Stick with domestic issues, you just get plain ridiculous on foreign policy like most of your Party (with a few honorable exceptions, like Joe Liebermann). Posted by: TX Pundit at August 26, 2003 12:08 AM
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