Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [MLUG][Politics] State of the Union

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> Stephen--
>
> I read your entire email about the war in Iraq.  I just think that Bush 
> is not there for humanitarian reasons.  I don't see the evidence.  There 
> is plenty of evidence of deception and manipulative tactics like trying 
> to tie Saddam to 9/11.  They have an argument that we are drawing 
> terrorists into Iraq, where we are killing them, and thereby protecting 
> the rest of the world.  They'll say whatever works to deflect criticism, 
> but I think they lie so much that they don't know what is true and they 
> hardly care.

An interesting hypothesis, but I doubt you are correct.

The vice-president of Syria who recently defected to France (I forget 
his name) stated that President Assad of Syria made a similar error in 
judging Bush.  He thought that Bush's support for Lebanon's freedom was 
purely a tactic on Bush's part to put pressure upon Syria.  The 
vice-president claimed that Assad badly miscalculated when he had Hariri 
assasinated, because he thought that Bush wouldn't actually care.

On a slight change of subject, certainly it looks like Syria waited 
until after the last US presidential election before pulling out of 
Lebanon.  They were hoping that Kerry would win, because they were 
fairly sure that Kerry would not make the kind of stand that Bush was 
making.  As I recall, Kerry visited Assad in Syria shortly after losing 
the election - a little boy came up to him and expressed sorrow that 
Kerry had lost - Kerry said that he was similarly disappointed.

Stephen

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