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RafterMan

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Thu Feb-19-04 03:59 AM
Response to Reply #38

40. The support wasn't there

Other countries just didn't want it to happen -- they couldn't see how SH was a threat to America any more than I can. The primary concern of our allies in this affair was unchecked American power, not Saddam Hussein.

When he bumped into this wall, would it have stopped John Edwards?

Not according to him:"I think we couldn’t let those who could veto in the Security Council hold us hostage."

Also, if you concede that JE supported Bush's preemptive war policy point-by-point in the interview, what would you say are his grounds for saying he did not support Bush's preemptive war policy in the same interview?

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