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Originally posted by Jeff Higgins
I simply cannot believe Bush, or any President for that matter, would crank up our war machine on a personal vendetta. Or to profit his VP's former employer. Or on shakey intelligence. There is clearly far too much at stake to risk something like that poitically. That's my cynical side; I believe if nothing else a very well developed sense of political self-preservation would preclude that. In other words, I believe the decision was made on the best, most credible information available at the time. And that it was not made lightly, or with glee as some seem to believe.
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I'm curious, since it's* been done several, no make that many, times by presidents in the past, why you find it hard to believe this time?
McKinley did it, Wilson did it, Roosevelt did it, Johnson did it, Clinton did it, and Bush I did it.
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crank up our war machine on a personal vendetta. Or to profit his VP's former employer. Or on shakey intelligence.