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It's amazing to watch Kerry and the Dems call Bush incompetent and a liar when the very organization they put so much faith in is guilty of all those attributes. Is it any wonder why these people didn't want to remove Saddam? Between this scandal..France and Russias future oil contracts, continual breeches in the trade embargo, and the debt owed to them by Saddam, they obviously put their financial interests above those of the security of, not only the USA...but of everybody threatened by this monster.

When Kerry and the Dems talk about the failure of this war, one must remind them that we may not have had a war if Saddam didn't feel emboldened and enabled by these countries who never had the intention of supporting his removal. And this is important because these are the same countries who voted 15-0 to support "whatever means necessary" to remove Saddam if he didn't adhere to the UN resolutions...or if he breeched those resolutions.

Saddam's belligerence with regards to unhindered access to scientists, U2 flyovers, etc., was a direct result of him knowing that there were certain countries who would never support the use of force against him. This was further corraborated with France's duplicity, were Chirac and DeVillian had given personal, private assurances to both Bush and Powell that they would, indeed, support the use of force if necessary (re: Timmerman's, France Lied).

Unfortunately, to Powell's dismay, DeVillian announced to the world that France couldn't participate in the use of force against Saddam. This announcement took Powell by so much surprise that he was angered beyond belief. And it wasn't enough that France had to withdrawal; Chirac and DeVillian proceeded to travel the world coercing others to do the same...which even makes me wonder if Turkey's last minute pullout may have been a result of French pressure, relating to their EU status.

Instead of providing a truly unified front to force Saddam to acquiesce...and to potentially avoid war, Saddam knew (or, so he thought) that he would never be removed because he had these countries in his hip pocket. It wasn't Bush who lied or mislead anybody...it was the very people and countries that Kerry and the Democrats put so much credibility in. But instead of condemning them for their lies, fraud and abuse, they attack the president of our own country who's been the only straight shooter throughout.

If they want to call it a war for oil...let 'em. But just remind them who were the one's doing the profiting from this tyrant over the last decade as they even broke their own embargo and traded with this enemy. Sure, this war hasn't gone as smoothly as some would've hoped, but let's remember that right from the very beginning there have been those (not even Muslims) who have done their best to see to that.