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Wayne et. al.<BR>
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I wonder what the heck is happening to people's memories, even John Kerry's? Hans Blix and Scott Ritter, both critically involved in weapons inspections in Iraq, did not think we needed to invade Iraq to contain Saddam. Why did we not give inspections and more peaceful methods of containment more time? Why were we led to believe that invasion was imperative, indeed, in the false misleading manipulative words of W. Bush, that we faced a "mushroom cloud," a nuclear strike originating from Iraq in the US, if we did not invade!?<BR>
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And as Wayne so accurately points out, if saving lives and the humanitarian aim of deposing a dictator were the goals, why do we not show the same approach to other areas of the world facing horrific brutality? Oil resources of course come first to mind.<BR>
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However, on the subject of Kerry's support for war in Iraq, we should consider that he is shamelessly playing politics to steal Bush's image of tough military patriotism. I don't like it. In fact, I have never liked Kerry that much because he was one of the Democrats who voted to authorize Bush to have authority to wage war in Iraq.<BR>
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But politics being what it is, as we all know, Kerry may be playing the phony political game to the hilt.<BR>
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Am I willing to accept this game to gain the lesser of two evils? Beam we away, to the planet where honesty wins elections, somewhere it must exist...<BR>
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Ted Moffett</FONT></HTML>