Kerry has conceded

[jimbo]

Two points:

I may be in the minority, but I felt the 'witch hunt' campaign against Pres Clinton *was* legitimate

t2p - I wanted Clinton to resign, it would have been better from the country and the democrats .. but I think it was a witch hunt. Nothing at all ever came from whitewater, filegate etc. etc. Ken Star et all is to blaim for that period of history. Put any politician (including Bush) under that kind of microscope and stuff will come up that's disturbing.

There was a right wing conspiracy to tear down Clinton's presidency and they finally caught him in a lie (which they forced by putting his back to the wall) about getting a BJ.

I would be interested to hear how the families of those KILLED in the attack on 9/11 would react to your "go hug the terrorists" response.

I'm not willing to go along with the assumption that the war in Iraq had anything to do with terrorism before we invaded and attracted all the terrorists in from outside the country. I don't think Bam Bam buys into this either. (and neither do many of the 911 families some of whom are very hostile towards a government that they feel failed to protect them)

Even Rumsfeld and Bush, based on solid advice and intelligence, felt Iraq had nothing to do with 911 right after the attacks on the towers and pentagon.

Much of the intelligence they would later use to come to an opposite opinion already existed and had been reviewed at that time.

Why they later totally reversed their position, gave in to Wofowitz, started touting the WMD thing and drug us into this mess is still not very clear.

I think they decided to use 911 as an excuse to make the world better.

Whether it has made the world better is still very much up in the air.

Sept 15th 2001 (quoted from 911 Commision Report):

Secretary Powell recalled that Wolfowitz—not Rumsfeld—argued that Iraq was ultimately the source of the terrorist problem and should therefore be attacked. Powell said that Wolfowitz was not able to justify his belief that Iraq was behind 9/11.

“Paul was always of the view that Iraq was a problem that had to be dealt with,” Powell told us.“And he saw this as one way of using this event as a way to deal with the Iraq problem.”

Powell said that President Bush did not give Wolfowitz’s argument “much weight.”